[magick-users] Installation woes OS X 10.4.11 / Intel Quad

[Paul R Martin]

Dear ImageMagick mailing list.

I'd be grateful for some help to get me off the ground. I'm familiar  
with unix commands but am not an expert and have only trivial  
experience at command-line installation.

1. As a prelude to installing ImageMagick I  installed "MacPorts";  I  
think that installation was successful but the promised $PATH  
modifications to my (previously non-existent) .profile file did not  
happen, so I added them by hand. I am telling you this because I  
guess it could be a sign of something nasty. But I don't really know.

2. $ sudo port selfupdate returns the following, which I take to be a  
good sign:

MacPorts base version 1.600 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600
The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated
selfupdate done!

3. my first attempt to  $ sudo port install ImageMagick seemed  
successful but returned one warning (I'm sorry, I didn't keep the log)

4. subsequent attempts to  $ sudo port install ImageMagick yield the  
following nasty stuff.

--->  Verifying checksum(s) for ImageMagick
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for ImageMagick-6.4.4-8.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for ImageMagick-6.4.4-8.tar.bz2
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for ImageMagick-6.4.4-8.tar.bz2
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file  
checksums
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

5. It's not clear to me whether and where the distribution files have  
been installed. I can do this but I don't know what it really means.

$ cd /opt/local/var/macports
$ ls
build           distfiles       receipts        software        sources


  Can anybody give me guidance?



Many thanks,

yours, Paul.




Paul R. Martin
Director of Research,
National Vision Research Institute of Australia.
Professorial Research Fellow,
Dept Optometry & Vision Sciences
The University of Melbourne.
Cnr Keppel & Cardigan Streets, Carlton, VIC 3053
Australia.
prmartin at unimelb.edu.au
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