Installer fails but claim to succeed

[William Davis]

On Apr 9, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Rasmus Mackeprang wrote:

> OK, thanks. I did think it was an odd error to have in an install  
> script.
>
> Cheers,
> /R :-)

yep, you'd think we could have gotten out a version 1.61 by now.






>
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:46 AM, William Davis wrote:
>
>> just add the .profile path your self.
>> export $PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
>>
>> the other directories you name
>> will be added when a port that uses them is installed.
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Rasmus Mackeprang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> I am a new mac user (Linux -> Mac). I run OS-X 10.5.2. When  
>>> installing macports the promised .profile does not show up in my  
>>> home dir. Furthermore, when trying to uninstall as per the  
>>> instructions (http://guide.macports.org/#installing.uninstalling),  
>>> the locations
>>>
>>> /Applications/MacPorts/
>>> and
>>> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.*
>>>
>>> do not exist.
>>>
>>> Naively I would conjecture that the installer fails but claims to  
>>> succeed. The machine is brand new with Xcode 3.0 and the two X11  
>>> packages in place. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rasmus Mackeprang
>>>
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>>
>>
>> William Davis
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William Davis
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Mac OS X.5.2 Darwin 9.2.2
Xquartz 2.2.0 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple13)
Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz

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