On May 8, 2007, at 10:10, Paul Butcher wrote:
I'm relatively new to Macs, so please forgive me if I'm doing something stupid. I'm having problems installing ncurses with MacPorts. I get the following:
paul-butchers-computer:~ paul$ sudo port install ncurses ---> Staging ncurses into destroot Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: no such file or directory Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
port -dv gives me *lots* of output, but the last bit reads:
DEBUG: Executing proc-post-com.apple.destroot-destroot-0 DEBUG: delete: /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate _dports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot/opt/local/share /opt/local/var/ db/dports/build/ _opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate _dports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/terminfo Error: Target com.apple.destroot returned: no such file or directory Warning: the following items did not execute (for ncurses): com.apple.activate com.apple.destroot com.apple.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
I've tried doing a "port clean --all ncurses", but I get exactly the same thing afterwards.
Paul, I think this is the problem that was just fixed: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/24928 So please wait awhile (12 hrs?), then "sudo port sync", then try installing ncurses again.