mercurial install fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 18:12, grimmwerks wrote:

> Damn. This must be it. I just dumped MacPorts and started from  
> scratch - mercurial --with-dependencies was the first thing:
>
> --->  Activating python24 2.4.4_1+darwin_9
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: / 
> Applications/MacPorts/MacPython 2.4/BuildApplet.app/Contents/ 
> Info.plist already exists and does not belong to a registered  
> port.  Unable to activate port python24.
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: python24
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> maggoteater:~ grimm$

If /Applications/MacPorts/<anything> already exists and does not  
belong to a registered port, then it sounds like you did not  
uninstall MacPorts properly. Instructions are in the FAQ:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
FAQ#HowdoIremoveoruninstallMacPorts