sudo: port: command not found

You now have a working ports installation.

christo

According to the macports installation docs, the installer will make the necessary changes to your bash profile to allow the shell to find the new port application once installed. I found this didn't happen when installing macports, so of course the environment couldn't find port:

secondhalf-lm:~ clacy$ sudo port -v selfupdate
sudo: port: command not found

It's easy to get around this just by extending the path in your .bash_profile - The following should do the job:

add the following to ~/.bash_history

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info

and then re-source the file:

secondhalf-lm:~ clacy$ source .bash_profile 
secondhalf-lm:~ clacy$ sudo port -v selfupdate
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
receiving file list ... file has vanished: "/ports/perl/p5-csp/.Portfile.sPwLRn" (in release)
done
.. etc

You now have a working ports installation.

christo