How can I continue an interrupted installation with MacPorts?

Question

I'm new to all things shell/binary, and was installing Git (I understand SCM is a good thing from being on SO). My Internet connection hiccuped partway through, however, and the installation stalled.

It interrupted a tar.gz download, and I don't know quite how to resume where it left off. Here's the output:

computer:~ Alex$ sudo port install git-core +svn+bash_completion
--->  Computing dependencies for git-core
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-error
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Could not open file: 
/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/perl5/Error-0.17015.tar.gz
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: p5-error p5-libwww-perl p5-crypt-ssleay
    p5-html-parser p5-html-tagset p5-io-compress p5-compress-raw-bzip2 p5-compress-raw-zlib
    p5-uri p5-svn-simple subversion-perlbindings apr apr-util db46 cyrus-sasl2 gettext neon
    serf subversion p5-term-readkey rsync popt
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
computer:~ Alex$ 

So I tried twice, no luck. I found that file and replaced it with a complete file downloaded from the referenced website, and tried again; no luck. Can someone tell me how I might resume this process? I'm not sure quite how to tell it to pickup again.

Answer 1

Clean the perl5 and p5-error ports:

sudo port clean perl5 p5-error

Then

sudo port sync

to make sure your port configuration is up-to-date.

Then retry the original port command to install git.

If that doesn't work do a:

sudo port clean all

and retry.

Answer 2

You need to clean the distribution file:

`sudo port clean --dist p5-error`

Incidentally, clean --all would also be a flag that does what you need.

Answer 3

Clean the port first

sudo port clean git-core

Then reinstall