MacPorts / Terminal: `Unrecognized action "sudo"`

Question

I'm trying to install Image Magick on MAMP. And I'm seriously out of my depth.

I've installed MacPorts, and opened the terminal. I've typed in sudo port -v selfupdate per the instructions on http://www.macports.org/install.php#pkg

But the response I get from the Terminal is Unrecognized action "sudo"

I've googled and googled, but can't find anything that makes a slab of sense.

Any clever people feeling generous?

Answer 1

You are running ports on interactive mode, and you are not in your system shell. The port program won't recognize sudo as one of its commands, and I am guessing you didn't run your port command with sudo so you won't be able to do much, try the following:

• Click on your terminal.
• Press command + Q (command is the key left of your space bar)

• Open your terminal once again and do not run anything on else but the command suggested:

  sudo port -v selfupdate

If you get the same thing, you are still or again in Macports interactive session, type CTRL + C, or type quit.