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Installing Darwin Ports on Mac OS X

January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Darwin Ports are Unix packages ported for Mac OS X.

They can be downloaded from the Darwin Ports project page.

To install, simply download and run the package installer.

That done, modify your path by editing your .bash_profile file as follow

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PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"

Relaunch your terminal and run

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sudo port selfupdate

To install a package run

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sudo port install <package_name>

To uninstall the darwin ports, run

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sudo rm -rf /opt/local /Applications/DarwinPorts /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 <br />
/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup
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