Ryan, I was hesitant to move the /usr/local directory, so haven't tried it yet. Mark, you are right, I have no tar utility installed any more for some reason... Any idea where it is supposed to go? I'm thinking / usr/bin... Thanks, I'll try to replace it this evening. Jesse On Nov 27, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Mark Machado wrote:

Jesse-

I came across your message on the MacPort mailing list about your 'gzip pipe' problem when I was researching a similar problem I was encountering. That thread pointed me at a solution to my problem that I wanted to pass on in case yours was caused by the same thing. What had happened to me is somehow the 'tar' utility was removed from my system (I think it might have happened when I updated XTools). Try running 'tar' from an X11 terminal: if it is not accessible, you probably have the same problem I did.

To fix, I replaced the tar file (there was a backup copy in /Previous System/usr/bin - you may have to find it somewhere else), reran the XTools installer, and everything was fine.

Hope this helps,

Mark

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