beachycove
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Last night (overnight), my G4 PowerBook running X.5.8 with the latest available Developer Tools for Leopard (3.1.3?) failed to install all components on command "sudo port install auctex". The install went fine for about half of the many required packages, but failed about half-way through, once some of the docbook-xml ports began to build.
Got (so far as it went) updated ssl, perl, and emacs out of it, but not the whole installation. I am now concerned that I may have borked something even at the level of ssl, perl and emacs, since not everything got installed.
I thought that macports was farly idiot-proof, in that it is meant to check on dependencies and install the correct version of software accordingly. So do I just need to try again, or is macports not "this-idiot"-proof, i.e., did I miss something and is this just not going to work? And do I need to uninstall anything, do you suppose?
Sorry to ask. I am not new to the Terminal, but I am not really at home in it either.
Got (so far as it went) updated ssl, perl, and emacs out of it, but not the whole installation. I am now concerned that I may have borked something even at the level of ssl, perl and emacs, since not everything got installed.
I thought that macports was farly idiot-proof, in that it is meant to check on dependencies and install the correct version of software accordingly. So do I just need to try again, or is macports not "this-idiot"-proof, i.e., did I miss something and is this just not going to work? And do I need to uninstall anything, do you suppose?
Sorry to ask. I am not new to the Terminal, but I am not really at home in it either.