AbiWord for Intel?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 28, 2011, at 19:51, Tim Johnson wrote:

>> Hey, now we're getting somewhere, but macports tells me that it
>> can't read the portfile
>> #######################
>> linus:Downloads tim$ sudo port install
>> Error: Unable to execute port: could not read
>> "/Users/tim/Downloads/Portfile": permission denied
>> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
>> #######################
>> What should permissions (or ownership) be? 
>> Owner is tim:staff
>  Don't know what that was about. But I relocated the portfile.
>  In this case ~/prj/ports/abiword
>  And the portfile is read, but alas, many other problems.

MacPorts runs as the macports user, not root or as your user; the macports user (just like the other unprivileged users on your system) probably does not have permission to look into your Downloads folder.