sudo: ports: command not found

right im starting to play now

installed XCode and then installed darwinports

follwed the instructions here and then did a

sudo ports install gaim

and it gave me that the command wasnt found!? Any ideas as to why anyone

"sudo ports" or did you mean "sudo port"

It's sudo port...no s on the end.

yes. always consult man page before copy/pasting something in the terminal you found online.

thanks for that but even using port dont work still get command not found

My guess the port command is not in your path.

Try the folllowing: sudo ./port install gaim

That is asuming you are sitting where you installed the software.

THe next question is did you have a problem with the xcode install or the darwinports install?

/darwinports is the directory that im in and i tried the sudo ./port install gaim
tried the same in the /darwinports/dports folder but i then get
./port command not found

only problem i say when installing was X11 not found as it was running the make part of the install

I am assuming the you are trying to run a command called port and the system does not know where the command is located.

Try the following to see if you can locate the command.

sudo find / -name port -exec ls -l {} \;

Enter the above line jet as it is. Hopefully, it will locate the command. If it does not, then it is not on your system.

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root admin 23191 27 Apr 23:43 /opt/local/bin/port
total 168
drwxr-xr-x 6 matthewa matthewa 204 27 Apr 23:37 CVS
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewa matthewa 926 17 Dec 02:07 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewa matthewa 23191 27 Apr 23:43 port
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewa matthewa 7175 21 Mar 19:38 port.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matthewa matthewa 23189 20 Apr 04:53 port.tcl
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewa matthewa 2661 27 Apr 23:43 portall
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matthewa matthewa 2659 29 Mar 10:00 portall.tcl
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewa matthewa 4893 27 Apr 23:43 portindex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matthewa matthewa 4891 29 Mar 10:00 portindex.tcl
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthewa matthewa 23191 27 Apr 23:43 /Users/matthewayres/darwinports/base/src/port/port


is what it gives so that means that its installed yes?

Now that you know it is installed, do the following:

sudo /opt/local/bin/port install gaim

Thanks rman that worked a treat

can i set that path as an alias now like i can in linux?
If so is it the same and where is the location of the file to do it?

I don't know about the tcsh (trusted shell), but I know you can in csh (c shell) and ksh (kron shell). I believe the file that you want to create is the .tcshrc

Below is an example, I found my googling .tcshrc.

Modifying your .tcshrc file
The following is an example .tcshrc file. The most up-to-date version is located in /usr/local/tcsh as tcsh.cshrc.

set prompt="%S %m %/ %s%% "
set path = ( . /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lang /usr/local/X11/bin /usr/ucb /usr/bin /usr/etc /usr/openwin/bin /usr/local/wp/wpbin $path)
set history=50
set savehist
setenv MANPATH /usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/X11/man:/usr/local/pbmplus/man:/usr/local/lang/man:/usr/local/tex/man:/usr/local/gmt/man:/usr/local/hdf/man:/usr/local/mathematica/Documents/man:/usr/local/netcdf/man:/usr/local/ncar/man:/usr/local/splus/man:/usr/local/mathematica/man:/usr/local/lotus/man
setenv TEXINPUTS .:/usr/local/tex/inputs
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib:/usr/local/X11/lib:/usr/local/lang/SC1.0
umask 022
limit coredumpsize 0
#
#
# setting your editor, uncomment one of these pairs
#
#setenv EDITOR emacs
#setenv VISUAL emacs
#setenv EDITOR vi
#setenv VISUAL vi
#
# setting your pager, uncomment one of these
#
#setenv PAGER less
#setenv PAGER more
#
# setting your printer, use the PRINTER and LASER environment variables
# in the following you will need to add the printer name
#
# current printers are: nautilus, discovery, garth, wayne (letterhead), and
# aurora (not postscript)
#
#setenv PRINTER
#setenv LASER

# if you use any of the following uncomment
#source /usr/local/Standards/gmt
#source /usr/local/Standards/hdf
#source /usr/local/Standards/idl
#source /usr/local/Standards/imsl
#source /usr/local/Standards/ncar
#source /usr/local/Standards/pbmplus
#source /usr/local/Standards/nodctools
#source /usr/local/Standards/netcdf
#source /usr/local/Standards/lterSetUp
#source /usr/local/Standards/mathematica

# if you want to put customizations put them in a separate file and source
# it here.

hmm you know what i dont play with shells so i think ill leave it untill i get Tiger and hope that it behaves

what does this mean?

/etc/sudoers ls mode 0664 should be 0440
Segmentation fault

It means that the permissions are wrong on the sudoers file (which outlines who has access to what through sudo). Change the permissions to 440:

How can you do that without permissions? I keep getting Segmentation Fault
But thank you for suggestion however