Installing texlive fails

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On a clean Macbook Pro, installing texlive fails:

install -f texlive

....

--->  Fetching perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
--->  Extracting perl5.8
--->  Applying patches to perl5.8
--->  Configuring perl5.8
--->  Building perl5.8 with target all
--->  Staging perl5.8 into destroot
--->  Installing perl5.8 5.8.8_3+darwin_9
--->  Activating perl5.8 5.8.8_3+darwin_9
--->  Cleaning perl5.8
--->  Activating perl5 5.8.8_0+darwin_9
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: texlive_base perl5 texi2html texinfo gettext lzmautils texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

See #16830. Using install -f should not be necessary.

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Thanks for the link, but #16830 doesn't seems to come up with a solution? So, I tried to deactivate perl5.8:

deactivate perl5.8

And then again:

install texlive

But it came up with exactly the same error ...

---> Activating perl5.8 5.8.8_3+darwin_9 ---> Cleaning perl5.8 ---> Activating perl5 5.8.8_0+darwin_9 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by the active perl5.8 port. Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation. Error: The following dependencies failed to build: texlive_base perl5 texi2html texinfo gettext lzmautils texlive_texmf-full texlive_texmf-minimal Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Try

port uninstall perl5
port install texlive

Please let me know if it works.

For future reference, error output should use WikiFormatting.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Even if the previous advice didn't work, r43286 fixes the problem.

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