In my previous email I wrote: If I decide to reinstall, is there some way I can record what ports I currently have installed then, after the basic install, reinstall those ports with one command? So port list installed seems to spit out something almost like what I need, but I noticed that I seem to have two copies of several ports installed. It looks like fftw-3, oss-uuid, python24 and python25 are all installed twice: % port list installed bison @2.3 devel/bison bzip2 @1.0.4 archivers/bzip2 db44 @4.4.20 databases/db44 expat @2.0.1 textproc/expat fftw-3 @3.1.2 math/fftw-3 fftw-3 @3.1.2 math/fftw-3 freetype @2.3.5 print/freetype g95 @0.90 lang/g95 gdbm @1.8.3 databases/gdbm gettext @0.17 devel/gettext jasper @1.701.0 graphics/jasper jpeg @6b graphics/jpeg libiconv @1.12 textproc/libiconv libpng @1.2.25 graphics/libpng libxml2 @2.6.31 textproc/libxml2 libxslt @1.1.22 textproc/libxslt m4 @1.4.10 devel/m4 mercurial @0.9.5 devel/mercurial ncurses @5.6 devel/ncurses ncursesw @5.6 devel/ncursesw netpbm @10.26.50 graphics/netpbm openssl @0.9.8g devel/openssl ossp-uuid @1.6.0 devel/ossp-uuid ossp-uuid @1.6.0 devel/ossp-uuid postgresql83 @8.3.0 databases/postgresql83 py25-dateutil @1.4 python/py25-dateutil py25-tz @2007k python/py25-tz python24 @2.4.4 lang/python24 python24 @2.4.4 lang/python24 python25 @2.5.2 lang/python25 python25 @2.5.2 lang/python25 readline @5.2.007 devel/readline tiff @3.8.2 graphics/tiff unzip @5.52 archivers/unzip wget @1.11 net/wget zlib @1.2.3 archivers/zlib What's up with that? I suppose I should be able to do something like this: port list installed | awk '{print $1}' > currentports sudo rm -rf /opt/local sudo port install $(cat currentports) but isn't there some other directory I need to remove? Some sort of MacPorts frameworks directory? -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/