Question

Am trying to install macports on a newly installed mountain lion, I installed first the xCode and then installed the xCode command line tools. After that, I ran the xCode and agreed for the terms and condition, then installed the macports dmg package.

Once I did, I ran the self update command and it worked but then any self install or self upgrade won’t work.

Mo-Mughrabis-MacBook-Pro:~ mo$ sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 69 bytes  30.00 bytes/sec
total size is 3543040  speedup is 33743.24
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 76 bytes  32.00 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 4.57
MacPorts base version 2.1.2 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.1.2 downloaded.
--->  Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 70 bytes  30.29 bytes/sec
total size is 53821440  speedup is 507749.43
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes  received 77 bytes  32.29 bytes/sec
total size is 512  speedup is 4.53
Creating port index in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports

Total number of ports parsed:   0 
Ports successfully parsed:  0 
Ports failed:           0 
Up-to-date ports skipped:   15604

--->  MacPorts base is already the latest version

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
  port upgrade outdated
Mo-Mughrabis-MacBook-Pro:~ mo$ sudo port upgrade outdated
Error: No ports matched the given expression

When i tried to run sudo port install I got the following

Mo-Mughrabis-MacBook-Pro:~ mo$ sudo port install 
Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("Could not find Portfile in /Users/mo").
Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
To use the current port, you must be in a port's directory.

Any one can help me out on what i might have done wrong here?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Since you just barely installed MacPorts, none of the actual ports (that you most likely had on another computer) have been installed yet.

If you run port installed, you’ll notice that it returns empty.

So congratulations; 0 out of 0 ports are outdated 😉

If you want all the same ports that you had on your other Mac(s), fire up Terminal and run port installed on those machines. That should give you a list of everything, and you can either export that list, or pick-and-choose the ones you want on your new Mountain Lion installation.

And then it will be as simple as

port install [which program]

for each of those ports that you want.