problem initializing macports

[tania habib]

Yes I did, but it comes with the error that "port:command not found".
I feel there is some path problem. Can please guide me through the
procedure of setting the path variable in X11!

thanks
tania

On Nov 25, 2007 2:11 PM, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 7:23 AM, tania habib wrote:
>
> > Dear List,
> > It has been long since I installed macports on my mac osx 10.4. I used
> > the ports to install many packages but then I went on to do  some
> > other things and did not use ports for a while. Last week, when I
> > tried to intialize the port, it did not work!
> > When I go to and X11 terminal and type port , it gives me the
> > following error message
> >
> > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, no
> > suitable image found.  Did find:
> >        /opt/local/share/darwinports/Tcl/pextlib1.0/Pextlib.dylib:
> > mach-o, but wrong architecture
> >
> >
> > Please help me out here as I even thought of uninstalling and
> > re-installing it again but I will lose all the packages I installed
> > with it and currently I need them for my work. Kindly let me know if
> > there is a work around this problem!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tania
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>
> Did you try :
> sudo port -d selfupdate
> ?
>
> William Davis
> frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
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