Thanks to Adrian's help, I was able to complete the install of MacPorts.

My goal in installing MacPorts was to get a ntop installed. Checking for installation instructions for ntop on macports.org wasn't helpful at all; I couldn't find any instructions. Luckily, back at the old darwinports.org there is a url for ntop, http://ntop/darwinports.org that actually contains installation instructions:

cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/ntop % sudo port install ntop

One problem here is that if /portslocation/dports/ntop doesn't exist, then you must create it, cd to it and then sudo. Even thou the instructions are clear, they should mention this to save newbies like me.

Once the directories are created, sudo port install ntop works wonderfully, installing all sorts files - that is until it gets to libcap. Libcap can't be found in any of the following locations: ---> Fetching libpcap ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://www.tcpdump.org/release/ ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/libpcap ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/libpcap ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/libpcap ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/libpcap Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed

Since I it appears that libcap is required to build and install ntop, what should I do from here?

ntop is broken on 10.5 and I don't know what the fix is yet. If someone could ask the ntop support list it would be great. I've been too busy to do it.

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Right afterwards, cgilib failed to build since the terminal didn't know what the command "O3" was. Details below.

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---> Building cgilib with target {} Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_www_cgilib/work/cgilib-0.5" && make CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC -I." " returned error 2 Command output: O3 -fPIC -I. -c -o cgi.o cgi.c make: O3: Command not found make: [cgi.o] Error 127 (ignored) O3 -fPIC -I. -c -o cookies.o cookies.c make: O3: Command not found make: [cookies.o] Error 127 (ignored) ar rc libcgi.a cgi.o cookies.o ar: cgi.o: No such file or directory ar: cookies.o: No such file or directory make: *** [libcgi.a] Error 1 Error: The following dependencies failed to build: rrdtool cgilib libart_lgpl perl5.8 tcl Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

The last time I saw this happen, simply cleaning and reinstalling fixed it. sudo port uninstall cgilib sudo clean --all cgilib sudo port install cgilib Mark