The problem is that it refuses to recognize the uninstall command. I don't really want to go through the hassle of reinstalling macports because I have other ports installed on my machine and I don't want to have to wait until sometime tomorrow for everything to finish compiling. But if that is the only way to fix this php and uninstall issue then I guess that is what I will have to do.
$ sudo /opt/local/bin/port -f uninstall pcre @4.5_0
Password:
Error: port uninstall failed: invalid command name "portuninstall::uninstall"
I am really sorry for taking up so much of your time but I appreciate the help.
thanks,
Evan
On 6/2/07, Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa@macports.org> wrote:
On 2.6.2007, at 20.49, Evan Burrows wrote:
> Here are the dependencies for php5 on my machine:
>
> php5 has library dependencies on:
> libxml2
> libxslt
> openssl
> zlib
> libiconv
> expat
> gettext
> tiff
> mhash
> libmcrypt
> curl
> pcre
> jpeg
> libpng
> freetype
>
> When i originally tried installing php5 again it required a higher
> version
> of pcre than i had. so I deactivated the old version and installed
> the new
> version:
> The following ports are currently installed:
> pcre @4.5_0 (active)
> pcre @7.1_1+utf8
>
>
>
> But I can't see to deactivate the 4.5_0 version because i get the
> error i
> stated earlier. I did a selfupdate yesterday and again this
> morning before
> trying to uninstall and install php5 but still had the same
> problems. Like
> I said earlier I have been able to install other ports so it isn't
> like my
> whole macports installation is busted. Just php5 is giving me an
> issue
> right now.
>
Hi,
looking at this, I'd suggest the following: 'port -f uninstall pcre
@4.5_0' followed by 'port activate pcre @7.1_1+utf8'. Good that other
ports behave well!
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