deluge install error

[mau_hernandez@…]

I encountered the following errors after running command sudo port install deluge... pls help?

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: librsvg libgsf gnome-vfs gconf gtk2 shared-mime-info intltool perl5 tiff orbit2 libidl gnome-mime-data openssl libbonobo py25-gtk libglade2 py25-cairo py25-numpy fftw-3 py25-hashlib py25-nose py25-setuptools py25-zlib py25-xdg
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[mau_hernandez@…]

Cc Me!

[blb@…]

"...being used by the active perl5.8 port... perl5..." so something is wanting perl5 even though you already have perl5.8 installed. mcalhoun, shouldn't all references to perl5 have been with a path: dependency?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Try: sudo port uninstall perl5 && sudo port selfupdate

I suspect you have a slightly outdated autoconf portfile which is causing this. See #16830.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

I tried to install deluge on a clean machine.
Although I haven't reached the error yet (boost is a big project), I think the following will solve the problem:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port uninstall perl5
sudo port install perl5.8
sudo port install deluge

The following seems to have happened:

• There was no perl installed when the command sudo port install deluge was run
• One of the required ports depended on path:bin/perl:perl5 so MacPorts listed per5 as a dependency
• Another of the required ports depended on either path:bin/perl:perl5.8 or port:perl5.8, so MacPorts listed perl5.8 as a dependency.

Let me know if this does not work.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

It seems that the proposed fix worked, so I will close this ticket.

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