libxslt fails to install

[jeb@…]

I'm setting a new imac, still quite a clean install at the moment. I installed macports 1.5 by downloading the dmg then running sudo port sync.

I've successfully installed apache2 but when I try to install libxlst I get the following error -:

---> Fetching libxslt ---> Attempting to fetch libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz from ​ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/ ---> Attempting to fetch libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz from ​http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/libxslt ---> Attempting to fetch libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz from ​http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/ ---> Attempting to fetch libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz from ​http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/libxslt Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Thanks

jebw

[sfiera@…]

I just tried a port fetch libxslt and I was able to fetch libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz just fine. Either your problem was transient, and you should try again, or you have something in your firewall blocking FTP ports.

A workaround would be to fetch the file (​ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz) manually, then place it in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/libxslt and port install libxslt again.

[jeb@…]

FTP normally works just fine from our network, we're web developers and Ive not found an ftp server we can't connect to yet.

I've tried wgetting the file from that address, ftp connects fine, cd's into the directory but then gets permissioned denied on that file??

thanks

jebw

[sfiera@…]

Do you mean that you got a permission error trying to download the file into the distfiles dir? That directory is owned by root, so you would need to sudo wget ..., or better yet, download the file elsewhere then sudo cp it.

[jeb@…]

Scratch that last comment. Realised the permission denied error was from my mac - I was running wget without sudo.

This means that it is port that couldn't retrieve the file for some reason, since wget was running from the same user on the same host, subject to the same firewall restrictions. What does port use for downloading files - curl?

Just to clarify - I tried running sudo port install libxslt directly before wgetting, and it was still failing to download the file. Its now happily installing since I prefetched the tarball.

thanks

jeb

[sfiera@…]

MacPorts uses libcurl for fetching, yes. How does the standalone curl do at fetching the file?

[jeb@…]

happily downloaded it into /opt/local/..... using 'sudo curl' which is odd? I'm not sure whats failing. I'll just have to put it down to bad luck or something :)

thanks

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