A package management system for OS X. It allows for easy installation of free/open source software. Formerly called DarwinPorts.
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Many Compile Warnings while Installing MacPorts
I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2. I also installed the latest version of Xcode (version 4.2) in order to build MacPorts. After doing this, I had no problems executing sudo port ...
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Help getting Nautilus running under MacPorts
I have been trying to run Nautilus on OS X 10.6.8 without any luck. First, I installed MacPorts, then installed Nautilus. However when I try to run it from the command line, I am getting an error. I ...
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How to make sure macports only upgrades to ports that are at least a month old?
The goal is to insulate a code base from potential problems with new port upgrades.
So maybe if a port upgrade outdated command can be amended not to use the freshest of the fresh ports, you can ...
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What happens if I update an app using its built-in ability that I built/installed through MacPorts?
Will I break MacPorts ability to manage and update that same app? Would it even allow me to do so?
For example, both MacVim and iTerm2 have a "Check for Updates..." function built into them. If I ...
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How can I apply a patch file to a Mac Ports app?
I want to use the CD-ripping utility abcde, which I've installed via Mac Ports. I've run afoul of a problem in abcde, which is described in their bug database. Someone made a patch file ...
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ImageMagick - Convert multipage pdf to animated gif
I have a two-page PDF file that I would like to convert to an animated GIF file. A post on the TeX StackExchange gives the following ImageMagick one-liner:
convert -verbose -delay 50 -loop 0 ...
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Is there any way to speed up kdiff3 startup time?
I recently switched over to OS X from Kubuntu and am trying to get my favourite development tools working.
In Kubuntu I always used kdiff3 as my git difftool. I can get it to work on OS X, either by ...
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OS X application manager
Unix-sytled, "package managers" like Fink, Homebrew, and MacPorts do a good job of managing 'headless' libraries. I would like something similar to manage OS X applications with a GUI.
I am hoping ...
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A lot of problems with Homebrew
This is probably bad form for this board, and feel free to delete it if it is, but running brew doctor reveals the following:
Warning: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig isn't writable.
This can happen if you ...
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How can I delay loading of a launchd Launch Daemon on boot?
I am running OS X Server 10.7.5 on a Mac Mini and I cannot get MacPorts’ Apache2 to start on boot. I have ensured that the Apple-supplied version of Apache is not launching and I have also ensured ...
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How do I install macports successfully?
Right now it's stuck at
Running packages scripts
And here is the log:
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro installd[9247]: ./postinstall: MacPorts base version 2.1.2 installed,
Aug 28 13:48:52 Alejandro ...
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Midnight Commander installed via Ports to support scp
I have installed Midnight Commander via Ports, but I am unable to connect to a remote computer to copy files as:
cd #sh:user@server.net
I keep getting:
"Cannot CHDIR to #sh:user@server.net".
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Editing $PATH variable for apache on mountain lion
I've just installed ImageMagick using macports and am trying to use it from a php site running on Apache, but nothing I do works to add /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin to my path.
So far I've tried
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Is there a rpmbuild that works on macosx?
I am working on a maven build that needs to make an rpm. Is there a native rpmbuild utility that will run on MacOSX? So far I have found some old abandoned macports/darwin projects and people ...
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Installing RPM with MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.7.5
I installed MacPorts from the official site usting .pkg installer for Mac, accepting all default installation settings.
Then my goal was to install rpm, so I typed respectively :
sudo port -v ...
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Add WXT Terminal to GNUplot 4.6.1
My MacPorts GNUplot 4.6.1 works nicely but has no WXT terminal. Over in StackOverflow
WXT terminal on OSX
this was suggested:
port variants gnuplot to list available variants.
sudo port ...
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Samba3 not running
iam trying to get samba3 running. I installed the xcode command line tools. Then i installed macport and made an selfupdate. after this is entered "sudo port install samba3" which worked fine:
Then ...
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License problems installing aquaterm via macports
I am trying to install aquaterm via macports. I run
sudo port install aquaterm
This gives back an error:
---> Building aquaterm
Error: org.macports.build for port aquaterm returned: command ...
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Installing Wine with Brew
So I try installing wine:
λ ~ → brew install wine
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.4.1.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: ...
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Installing Kile on OS X 10.7
How does one install Kile on OS X. I have MacPorts installed on my machine.,I tried to install via the commands given here.
When I run the command.
sudo port -f activate dbus
I get an error as ...
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Installation of Wine via MacPorts not working with 10.8 and XCode 4.4
I had installed wine on my computer with then 10.7.4. It worked perfectly. Then I updated to 10.8 and wine did not work, so I uninstalled wine and macports. It gave me an error that winetricks (I ...
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How can I install ganglia on 10.6 with fink?
I want to install Ganglia on my mac.
I was able to get the configure script to work by installing the following fink packages:
fink install rrdtool rrdtool-dev libconfuse0
And then issuing ...
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MacPorts and Pallet GUI
I am very new to MacPorts. However after googling for a long time, I have managed to get it to work on Lion with Xcode 4.2.1. Somehow MacPorts does not work with Xcode 4.3 so far.
Now, I was looking ...
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MacPorts 2.0.3 uninstalling package gives error “this entry does not own the given file”
I'm hitting an error while trying to uninstall some packages in my MacPorts 2.0.3 installation, and I can't figure out what's causing them or how to resolve them. Googling around lead to nothing ...
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Trouble installing sqlite3 on OS X 10.5.8
I am trying to install Rails 3, but having trouble with sqlite3. First I tried
$ sudo gem install sqlite3
however, I got this error message: http://pastie.org/2419493
After googling around, I ...
