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How to install Macports on Snow Leopard 10.6
Posted by Thomas in
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Sunday, August 16. 2009
Apple will release Snow Leopard retail soon. At the time I'm writing this, macports 1.7 (known as darwinports) are not working well with previous builds of Snow Leopard. I'm sure that everything will work out of the box with macports > 1.7.1 a few weeks after the retail release of OSX 10.6 in September 2009. Make sure to install Xcode from the 10.6 DVD! It will update gcc to version 4.2. My description wont work with old gcc 4.0 from 10.5.
To improve our chance for a working ports tree, we have to use the latest subversion source code (August 2009).
1. Open up the Terminal
2. svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/ (Wait for it to finish checking out files)
3. cd base
4. ./configure
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate
I had to add /Developer/usr/bin and /Developer/usr/sbin to my .bash_profile
export PATH=/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
There are mailing list entries about problems with compiling python on Snow Leopard. This might change soon but be aware of such problems.
Update:Use sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants and then sudo port upgrade outdated to update all your old installed ports after selfupdate.
If you see errors like: ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/libz.dylib, file is not of required architecture then you've to remove zlib and libiconv as installed ports and re-install it again.
sudo port uninstall -f libiconv zlib
sudo port install libiconv zlib
This may break some old dependencies. If so then you have to rebuild all related ports as well.
To improve our chance for a working ports tree, we have to use the latest subversion source code (August 2009).
1. Open up the Terminal
2. svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/base/ (Wait for it to finish checking out files)
3. cd base
4. ./configure
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. sudo /opt/local/bin/port -v selfupdate
I had to add /Developer/usr/bin and /Developer/usr/sbin to my .bash_profile
export PATH=/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
There are mailing list entries about problems with compiling python on Snow Leopard. This might change soon but be aware of such problems.
Update:Use sudo port upgrade --enforce-variants and then sudo port upgrade outdated to update all your old installed ports after selfupdate.
If you see errors like: ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/libz.dylib, file is not of required architecture then you've to remove zlib and libiconv as installed ports and re-install it again.
sudo port uninstall -f libiconv zlib
sudo port install libiconv zlib
This may break some old dependencies. If so then you have to rebuild all related ports as well.
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MacPorts, formerly called DarwinPorts,[1] is a package management system that simplifies the installation of software on the Mac OS X and Darwin operating systems. It is a free/open source software project to simplify installation of other free/open source software. Similar in aim and function to Fink and the BSDs' ports collections, DarwinPorts was started in 2002 as part of the OpenDarwin project, with the involvement of a number of Apple Inc. employees including Landon Fuller, Kevin Van Vechten, and Jordan Hubbard.
It allows the installation of a number of packages by simply entering the command port install packagename in the Terminal, which will then download, compile and install the requested software, while also installing any required dependencies automatically.
During ccnp practice exams, a question related to the topic is also found.
On April 28, 2005, the project released version 1.0 of their software.[2] In December 2005, the project reached a milestone, passing 3000 ports.[3] As of September 2009, MacPorts version 1.8.0 contains more than 6000 ports.
MacPorts is currently hosted on Mac OS Forge, an open source hosting service created and maintained by Apple Inc.
It allows the installation of a number of packages by simply entering the command port install packagename in the Terminal, which will then download, compile and install the requested software, while also installing any required dependencies automatically.
During ccnp practice exams, a question related to the topic is also found.
On April 28, 2005, the project released version 1.0 of their software.[2] In December 2005, the project reached a milestone, passing 3000 ports.[3] As of September 2009, MacPorts version 1.8.0 contains more than 6000 ports.
MacPorts is currently hosted on Mac OS Forge, an open source hosting service created and maintained by Apple Inc.
I had to delete my old macports and fink paths out of $PATH:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
I also kept a backup of my old $PATH because i still use it:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/sw2/bin:/sw2/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
I also kept a backup of my old $PATH because i still use it:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/sw2/bin:/sw2/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
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