Wine Installation issues on Snow Leopard

[Iamapplenerd]

Firstly, hello and thank you for attempting to come to my rescue, I am in need of your assistance. With that said please let me share this problem in hopes of a possible solution.

Recently, I installed and configured MacPorts successfully. However I receive a warning from my terminal when I try and install wine using MacPorts. I command my terminal as follows - sudo port install wine-devel. It seems to recognize the command because it then asks for a password, I insert the correct password. Then my terminal responds:
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Error: Port wine-devel not found
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.

I am a terminal abecedarian and I do not understand what -d flag means. Nor do I know how to sync my source indexes. Why can't terminal find Port wine-devel? How can I achieve these terms my terminal commands of me?

Lastly, you should know, I have every system requirement to support Wine on my Macbook Pro. Intel processor, access to admin account with password, Apple Xcode and X11. All of the versions of software are compatible with my OS, Snow Leopard 6.2, and they are currently updated. Thank you for your time and consideration, as it is greatly appreciated.

[doh123]

you didn't follow the complete directions for installing Macports

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

did you do the last part....

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sudo port selfupdate

??

if so and it errors, or you still get those errors, you might have a firewall issue, but I'd suspect you didn't get it done.

[Charles Davis]

Iamapplenerd wrote:

Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?

Well there's your problem!

First you need to run:

sudo port sync

from the command line. Then you can install the wine-devel port.

Chip

[Iamapplenerd]

First you need to run:

sudo port sync

from the command line. Then you can install the wine-devel port.

Chip

Thank you for your helping me sync my sources. When I use the above command, terminal asks for my password then processes for a little while and responds:
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

[Iamapplenerd]

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sudo port selfupdate

??

if so and it errors, or you still get those errors, you might have a firewall issue, but I'd suspect you didn't get it done.

Thank you for your reply! My port firewall settings are set to low. And when I command

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 sudo port self update 

my terminal responds:
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
---> Updating the ports tree

Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

[Charles Davis]

Iamapplenerd wrote:

Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
port sync failed: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

Apparently, it has no idea where to look for ports.

You should ask on the MacPorts forums about this. This is very weird,
and far beyond the scope of this forum/mailing list. I've been using
MacPorts for ~2 years now, and I've never had that sort of trouble--even
when I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard last year.

Chip

[Noppon]

I am newbies and also face the same problem

"Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes? "

After read an entire thread, I can overcome the problem and think that my explanation will help the others, though this thread is already 10 months-old.

In addition, the below steps to put 2 codes were not mentioned in the tutorial by David Baumgold at http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

To solve the problem:

First: run the code

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sudo port selfupdate

Second: run this code

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sudo port sync 

Ps. to Iamapplenerd: You may use the wrong code. doh123 provided is the correct one.

"sudo port selfupdate" but not "sudo port self update" No space between self & update. This is maybe the point that's why you couldn't overcome the problem.