MacPorts2.6.3

I'm mainly a homebrewer, but for the occasional other package, I need MacPorts, and I like it a lot. Though the weird thing is that the latest update 2.5.4 doesn't support Xcode 10 on High Sierra; to use MacPorts 2.5.4 with Xcode 10, you need to be on Mojave.

Version 2.4.4 el capitan gets stuck at verifying. Any ideas?

When I try to install Pallet, I get a failure. The following message appears. What am I doing wrong? ============ ---> Building webkit-gtk Error: org.macports.build for port webkit-gtk returned: command execution failed Please see the log file for port webkit-gtk for details: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_www_webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk/main.log Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 Error rebuilding webkit-gtk while executing "error "Error rebuilding $portname"" (procedure "revupgrade_scanandrebuild" line 382) invoked from within "revupgrade_scanandrebuild broken_port_counts $opts" (procedure "macports::revupgrade" line 5) invoked from within "macports::revupgrade $opts" (procedure "action_revupgrade" line 2) invoked from within "action_revupgrade $action $portlist $opts" (procedure "action_target" line 96) invoked from within "$action_proc $action $portlist [array get global_options]" (procedure "process_cmd" line 93) invoked from within "process_cmd $remaining_args" invoked from within "if { [llength $remaining_args] > 0 } { # If there are remaining arguments, process those as a command set exit_status [process_cmd $remaining..." (file "/opt/local/bin/port" line 4857)

The best software available to get apps like kstars, which is a great astronomy app as well as other open source apps. It is a great addition to OSX.

The download link is for Lion. There are different installers for Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.1.2-10.8-MountainLion.pkg https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.1.2-10.6-SnowLeopard.pkg

This is an amazing piece of software, virtually any piece of free open-source software is available to you with this tool, including Gimp, Tesseract OCR, and even Wine.

I was needing Inkscape with the textext plugin. I have installed Fink but I was having building problems. I have then tested MacPorts 1.9.1 and launched sudo port install inkscape. After a long delay Inkscape has been built with all the dependencies (there are a lot of them) and Voilà ! It worked without a hitch. Inkscape gives some warnings during the launch but it seem to work and the launch is quick. I am using OSX 10.6.4. Now I can begin to explore other OS softwares. Thanks to the MAcPorts team, very nice job!

MacPorts works GREAT for me. No problems at all. I currently use it with a 10.5.8 PPC system, and will continue using it when I upgrade to a 10.6.x Intel. MacPorts is also a lifesaver. As a simple example, I just used it to compile the latest bug-fix release of the VideoLAN media player (VLC 1.0.6), which is currently only available in source form. Without MacPorts, I would need to download and compile by hand, and who knows what would have happened. As it is, I just typed "sudo port install vlc", and MacPorts handled the rest, compiling not only VLC, but all the dependencies, and it used the right variants so that I ended up with a clickable program in my /Applications/MacPorts directory as well. Sweet. Although I use MacPorts as my primary package manager, I also use Fink, and if you configure things correctly, they can easily co-exist on the same system and not get in each other's way. All you have to do is make sure that the path to MacPorts' directories come before Fink. You do that like this in your .profile or .bash_profile: test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh export PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:${PATH}" export MANPATH="/opt/local/share/man:${MANPATH}" export INFOPATH="/opt/local/share/info:${INFOPATH}"

As a counterpoint to the last two comments, MacPorts almost always works well if it's correctly installed. Apart from Xcode, there are no external dependencies. Once in a while a port fails to build, and then you have to take a particpatory, problem-solving approach -- this is open-source software. I've found that most problems can be resolved by looking up bug reports, reading the mailing list, or posting a query myself. MacPorts is not a point-and-click kind of thing. You have to be comfortable with UNIX or willing to learn.

90% of everything I have tried to install, related to the X Windowing System, fails to install. I have Apple's development tools installed, too. The errors are usually "error code (1)" or "error code (0)" or " 'some-piece' failed to compile" no reason given. I get these whether I install using a GUI or the Terminal. No mention of what these codes mean. The other issue is, although it lists dependencies, it gives no clue as to where to get these or, in many cases, to which of these dependencies come with an application available through Macports.

When I try to download the MacPorts 1.8 package for Snow Leopard I get the following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /MacPorts/MacPorts-1.8.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg on this server.

The most important application and the most necessary on the Mac. Without this it would be impossible to get the free games, and innovative stuff like "Figlet" and kStars which BTW beats all shareware and freeware astronomy apps available including Stellarium and other apps. It was great that it is now NATIVELY ported to 10.5 and runs great!

At long last, the clisp port is fixed! And all of my other 200+ ports are building correctly. Nice.

Simply put, if port didn't exist I would not own a Mac.

The package manager formerly known as DarwinPorts is the best thing out there for easy installation, compiling and management of all sorts of unix based stuff. Super app! Better than Fink, in my opinion, as it seems to have more up to date packages, in general.

Probably the best package manager there is.