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MacPorts Project
Note: The screenshot shown in this listing comes from Pallet, a separate resource available here.
MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, OS X, and Darwin).
MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, OS X, and Darwin).
What's New
Version 2.2.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.9 or later
Intel, OS X 10.9 or later
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Note: The screenshot shown in this listing comes from Pallet, a separate resource available here.
MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, OS X, and Darwin).
MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, OS X, and Darwin).
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https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsGUI
Do NOT bother with Porticus or PortAuthority. They no longer work properly with MacPorts v2.
GUIs for MacPorts have never been perfect, but Pallet is a reasonably easy way to learn about available ports.
As for installing ports, I've found using the CLI to be easier to use. And I hate CLI commands! I ended up writing the commands then dragging them out of Terminal as clippings. Whenever I need to use the commands I just drop them on Terminal, finish the commands as required, and let Terminal do the work.
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Negritude reviewed on 05 Feb 2013
Apple, because of their fear of version 3 of the General Public License (GPL), has completely abandoned updating many of the open source components in OS X. This has affected the BSD userland the most. In some cases, they've tried replacing established tools with their own, but mostly, programs have simply been allowed to languish with no updates past those that were released under the GPLv2.
That's where package managers like MacPorts come in, to keep your system from becoming a decrepit and obsolete pile of trash, due to Apple's neglect. This is a key example of why the *nix brethren and sistren among us need to maintain things ourselves, because Apple has once again thrown us under the bus.
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OS X still includes lots of stuff covered by the GPL, as the Licenses column on this page will attest to:
Mac OS X 10.8.2 - Source
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1082/
But that all refers to the GPL 2 license; I don't know if OS X includes anything covered by GPL 3.
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Look who the Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies is. (Hint: it isn't Richard Stallman)
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I used the term "BSD userland" generically. It's obvious that OS X is a mixed userland of BSD, GPL, and other licensed components. The point is that many well-known and respected *nix apps, like rsync, are no longer being updated by Apple, and those that care about command line tools need to be aware of that.
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[ I am not a licensing expert but somewhat familiar with GPL v2 and BSD licenses. Your statements about v3 (which I don't know yet) got me interested, so I'd appreciate if you could elaborate a bit. ]
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 27 Jul 2012
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MacPorts is one of a few different ports repositories for Mac OS X. It's pretty much the closest one to an "official" repository, I think.
Having noted that, I had difficulty getting my MacPorts repository to the point where I could effortlessly type
"port install package_name"
and expect the program to Just Do It.
My main need for the various ported programs and libraries was to assist in doing Ruby development, so I went with Homebrew (which does not appear to be available through MacUpdate). Homebrew does the same basic thing as MacPorts, coded entirely in Ruby. I really don't know whether the selection of Homebrew ports is as extensive as the selection of MacPorts. I do know that it's very easy for me to install and manage ports and their dependencies.
So: a port repository on your OS X machine is a Good Thing. If MacPorts works great for you, excellent! If it doesn't, there are others, including (maybe limited to) the aforementioned Homebrew, and Fink.
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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
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mymon reviewed on 15 May 2012
1) port -d selfupdate
2) port upgrade outdated
3) port install mc
(use with sudo)
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What does installing Midnight Commander have to to with upgrading MacPorts?
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u r right - it has nothing to do with port upgrade
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https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsGUI
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And yah, I didn't know of Pallet either.
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UnconventionalT reviewed on 04 Dec 2010
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Yildi reviewed on 20 Jun 2010
Thanks to the MAcPorts team, very nice job!
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Negritude reviewed on 10 Jun 2010
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}"
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The following message appears.
What am I doing wrong?
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---> 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)
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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /MacPorts/MacPorts-1.8.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg on this server.
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Priosantos-Jan rated on 07 Feb 2013
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Eridani rated on 06 Dec 2011
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Shooters rated on 18 Sep 2011
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Fongd rated on 17 Sep 2011
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ProjectBuilders rated on 30 Jul 2011