Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
#21041 closed defect (invalid)
Macports goes berserk when asked to install plplot
| Reported by: | david@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.8.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
Not sure where to turn to on this.
It would seem a simple install from the Darwinports webpage, but when the instruction 'sudo port install plplot' is given, Macports installed what looks like an entire Unix system on my Macbook Pro. What do Apache, Ruby, Sqlite and PHP have to do with plplot? These are just a few of dozens of unrelated applications installed. Obviously something has gone very wrong.
Happy to send you the logfile (presuming macports creates one) to show what happened. It has taken about 3 hours to install plplots with all the subsidiary junk.
Leopard 10.5.8 MacBook Pro
Regards
David Nicholls
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by david@…
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by tobypeterson
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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OK, I've just done an 'uninstall tree' process to see what depends on what. It appears there are dependency trees as follows: plplot > swig > php5 > apache2 and swig > ruby
So macports was just doing what it oughta. It might be a good idea to edit the page at plplot dot darwinports dot com to alert people that a whole bunch of dependencies (big ones) need to be installed first, and that it could take hours.