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Porticus 1.8.1

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Richard Laing

Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. MacPorts provides ready to build open-source software packages modified to compile and run on Mac OS X. The MacPorts project provides a TCL command line tool to manage installation, update and activation of the port packages. Porticus provides a GUI front-end to this tool.

What's New

Version 1.8.1:

Updated Greek localisation.
Bug fixes.

Requirements
PPC / Intel,

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

MacPorts 1.4.x or 1.5.x .

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Derekcurrie reviewed on 07 Mar 2012

ABANDONWARE:

Porticus no longer works properly with Mac OS X 10.7 or MacPorts v2.x. Version 1.8.1 is the last version forever. It will not be updated. It still works fine with Mac OS X 10.6 and MacPorts v1.x. I personally have adjusted to using the CLI instead as there are only three main commands you need to use.

However, if you would still like to use a GUI for MacPorts/X11/XQuartz, the best option is the Pallet project available via the MacPorts website. (Don't bother with the awful PortAuthority shareware).

[Version 1.8.1]

+544

Negritude commented on 08 May 2011

The comments below regarding the application crashing were fixed almost immediately after the developer became aware of the problem:

http://alittledrop.com/blog/?p=46

The bigger issue currently is that MacPorts' preferred method of storing information is in an sqlite database, and Porticus only supports the old flat-file storage method.

[Version 1.8.1]

+448

sjk commented on 30 Dec 2009

The missing app icon after mounting the dmg on 10.5.8 was a sign there might be trouble with this version, like people are reporting here, so I didn't try it.

[Version 1.8.1]

+18

Julifos commented on 30 Dec 2009

Crashes for me upon launch (OS 10.6.2, intel macpro, etc.), but works fine when I download previous version (from http://alittledrop.com/blog/) and update from within the app).

[Version 1.8.1]

Lukasz Geleta commented on 30 Dec 2009

Crashes immediately after start.

[Version 1.8.1]

+201

Mark Everitt commented on 30 Dec 2009

This release is broken. Crashes when it starts.

[Version 1.8.1]

+94

ean reviewed on 03 Jul 2009

OMG, this is great. Installs all the dependencies and everything. Utterly painless. I would use this even if I did have a brain.

[Version 1.6.2]

Farcaller reviewed on 22 Jul 2008

Porticus is a great manager for your macports installation. Being clean and simple it hides great power behind. And it's completely free!

[Version 1.4]

JetFireDX commented on 13 Jul 2007

I have the latest MacPorts installed and I can't get Porticus to install a single thing. Using MacPorts from the terminal works fine. I constantly get the following: Error: Error executing universal: Default universal variant only works with ports based on configure Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variants. These errors come up no matter what variants I choose. I really want to get to using this app...I just got done setting up a Ubuntu box and Synaptic was really easy. (Not as easy as drag and drop on the Mac, but still pretty good!)

[Version 1.0b4]

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JetFireDX replied on 13 Jul 2007

Heh... never mind. Don't select any variant and it seems to be working now.

jmchiarelli replied on 12 Jun 2008

Have you tried 1.3? It works great. I use it to update all my macports... Love it

Martinb had trouble on 29 Jul 2011

porticus 1.8.1 (which was working some time ago) now says that there are no ports installed, but the directory /opt/local exists and is > 3 GB big...

is there something broken?

MacOS X 10.6.5

[Version 1.8.1]

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