Snow Leopard selfupdate prob

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 27, 2010, at 02:21, Yvon Thoraval wrote:

> that's right, thanks for the tip ;-)
> 
> in fact i had installed :
> DarwinPorts-1.7.0-10.5-Leopard.dmg

Surely not: the last version of DarwinPorts was 1.3.2. The project was renamed to MacPorts with version 1.4.0. See:

http://trac.macports.org/browser/downloads


> where i should use better :
> MacPorts-1.8.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg 

Yes.


> now, "$ sudo port -d selfupdate" is correctly working

Great! Glad you got it working.


> (I did a "$ rm -rf /opt" before re-installing).

Note that while this may have worked ok in this case, correct uninstall instructions are more involved and described here:

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html


> No port at all was installed before on this computer.

Have fun installing ports!