Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #35640

Timestamp:

Aug 12, 2012, 6:09:53 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Comment:

Remember to use WikiFormatting when writing in Trac.

As the error message says, the problem is that MacPorts (via the bzip2 port) wants to install the file /opt/local/bin/bunzip2, but that file already exists and MacPorts does not think it put it there. That's a problem. Where did that file come from? If you cannot answer that question, then who's to say there aren't other files around that would conflict with other MacPorts ports? In that case the best course of action would be to follow the ​uninstallation procedure. That will ensure that all files in /opt/local are gone. Then you can reinstall MacPorts and whatever ports you want, knowing that there are no foreign files present that might interfere.