Unable to install anything on Snow Leopard

[wilburg@…]

My machine is a 2007 MacMini with a 1.66 GHx Intel Core Duo running OS-X 10.6.8. I have done a clean install of XCode 3.2.6 and MacPorts 2.0.1. I have been totally unable to get anything to install with MacPorts. For example, the command:

"sudo port install ncftp" yields the following:

sh-3.2# sudo port install ncftp
--->  Computing dependencies for ncftp
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ncurses ncursesw
--->  Activating ncursesw @5.8_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: Source file /tmp/mpextractOFTEgmPa/opt/local/share/doc/ncursesw/README.txt does not appear to exist (cannot lstat it).  Unable to activate port ncursesw.
Error: Failed to install ncursesw
Log for ncursesw is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_ncursesw/ncursesw/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ncurses ncursesw
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

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Have you tried cleaning and trying again? For example:

sudo port clean ncursesw
sudo port install ncursesw