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List:       macports-users
Subject:    Re: MacPorts OS X 10.6.2 install problem
From:       Ian Roache <deusxmac () fastmail ! com ! au>
Date:       2010-02-25 10:48:15
Message-ID: F921C402-9D59-4800-B627-C92515C8D841 () fastmail ! com ! au
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You're right - i omitted the space between one file and the next. Now done correctly, \
and copied correctly.

1.8.2 is now properly installed, selfupdate works, so I can get on with looking for \
ports.

Thank you very much for your help.

Ian 

On 25/02/2010, at 4:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 22:32, Ian Roache wrote:
> 
> > > cd /opt/local/etc/macports
> > > sudo cp macports.conf.default macports.conf
> > > sudo cp sources.conf.default sources.conf
> > > sudo cp variants.conf.default variants.conf
> > 
> > I've copied a set of the default files into a working directory for reference
> 
> Ok, but you don't really need to; they'll stay right where MacPorts installed them \
> in /opt/local/etc/macports and you can refer to them there. 
> > but using the sudo cp command as suggested returns:
> > 
> > Password:
> > usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file
> > cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory
> 
> It doesn't sound like you used the commands I showed above. What exactly did you \
> type? 

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