#Macports install wget manual
#Macports install wget upgrade

If you want to tweak the port system configuration, the default location of the global config file is /opt/local/etc/macports/nf. See the wiki page for additional details.Īfter setting my shell environment, I downloaded version 1.6 of the MacPorts disk image for 10.5 (Leopard) from the download area. I had already installed Xcode and XWindows, so the only thing I needed to do was modify my $HOME/.bash_login file to include the /opt/local directories in my PATH and set the DISPLAY variable with 'export DISPLAY=:0.0'. They can also be downloaded from the Apple developer web site. Installing MacPortsĪccording to the MacPorts wiki, there are three critical steps that must be done prior to installing MacPorts:īoth Xcode Tools (which includes the compiler), and X11 are available on the Mac DVDs.

#Macports install wget upgrade

This option may be desirable if you share binaries between Intel and PPC Macs, or plan to upgrade soon and don't want to install your ports again. Universal portsĪn Apple enhancement to the original ports system allows some software to be built (compiled) as universal binaries. If that happens, it is usually because the source program was recently updated and the port scripts haven't caught up. This system is ingenious and works well in most situations, but you may occasionally run into a package that doesn't work. The heavy lifting is done by the ports system itself. The design of the ports system only requires package maintainers to write scripts that handle any differences in the local system (like library versions, hardware architecture, compiler versions, etc.). When a particular package is requested, the ports system checks the version of the system it is running on, the version of the available source code, then downloads the source, applies any patches needed for it run on the local system, compiles it, and installs it. Most of the software in the ports repository is written in the C language and requires a C compiler.

#Macports install wget manual

It was designed to automate the manual process programmers followed to port software from one Unix-like system to another. The ports system was developed in the BSD community as a way to easily install and manage software on any BSD system. If you are new the 'ports' concept, the way the system works may be hard to grasp. Updated for MacPorts 1.6 and Leopard on January 16, 2008 If you have a different version, you can download the source code and compile it. There are disk image downloads available for 10.3 (Panther), 10.4 (Tiger), and 10.5 (Leopard). Until late in 2006, the project was named DarwinPorts. MacPorts is a system designed to let you easily install and manage free, open source software on OS X.