wine users - Aug 2011 - problem installing WINE

Hi, I had to rearrange the user accounts on my iMac (10.6.8) and need to
re-instal WINE from the new admin account since the original one got mucked up
(for one thing, the .wine directory got deleted which is in user space).
It's objecting to the activation of python27:

--->  Activating python27 @2.7.2_0+universal
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
/Applications/MacPorts/Python 2.7/Build Applet.app/Contents/Info.plist already
exists and does not belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate port
python27. Use 'port -f activate python27' to force the activation.
Error: Failed to install python27
Log for python27 is at:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_python27/python27/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: mesa py27-libxml2 python27
python27 xorg-dri2proto xorg-glproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libX11
xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-libXdmcp
xorg-libxcb xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto xorg-util-macros
xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXi
xorg-libXext xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice
xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-renderproto xrender
xrender xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto
xorg-libXxf86vm xorg-xf86vidmodeproto
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
John-Sankeys-iMac:~ xadmin$ port -f activate python27
Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix.

Note: the account xadmin DOES have admin privileges; for the moment so does the
account WINE was installed under first, but that account needs to revert to
standard (non-admin).

How can I best recover from this mess?

this is a macports error and not a wine error.

You might try the macports mailing list at 

http://www.macports.org/contact.php

But you probably just need to run your port command as sudo:

i.e.


Code:
sudo port -f activate python27




Good luck.

Thanks - it worked - it turned out that the version of python in my system was
lower than the version fetched this time, but macports told me exactly the
command required to fix it, then everything went smoothly.

Many thanks again.