On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:12, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:

I installed the Xcode and X11, then the latest MacPorts and successfully updated it as well. I am ultimately trying to get wireshark running. This is the failure message I get:

[g5:~] jess% sudo port install wireshark ---> Extracting expat Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: shell command " cd "/ opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textp roc_expat/work" && gzip -dc /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/expat/ expat-2.0.1.tar.gz | -xf - " returned error 127 Command output: sh: -xf: command not found

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: glib2 gettext expat libiconv pkgconfig gtk2 atk cairo fontconfig freetype zlib libpng render xrender jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff libpcap openssl Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I tried installing port fping and got the same error.

Is this a simple fix? Has anyone else seen this? I'd sure appreciate any help.

Haven't seen this problem before. That's supposed to be a tar command the output of gzip is being piped to. Exactly what version of MacPorts do you have? What version of Xcode? What version of Mac OS X? What kind of Mac (Intel or PowerPC)?