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That said I was trying to download from and it was 'in Disaster Recovery Mode.' gz file (part of Ghostscript) was an HTML error message

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When I tried to install the first ports, I got the messageĮrror: the installed version of Xcode (7.3.1) is too old to use on the installed OS version. When I was transitioning to High Sierra, I installed the Apple developer tools using xcode-select -install, and then installed MacPorts. Installing ImageMagick installed Perl 5.28.

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(The reason for this complexity is that you can't change /usr/bin due to System Integrity Protection.)įor Mojave, I installed the full Xcode and the command line extensions, and then installed MacPorts. The risk is that modules you just installed will not be found, and attempts to install ports will fail with messages about variants.įix this by making /usr/local/bin/perl a symlink to the MacPorts version of Perl in /opt/local/bin/perl before updating CPAN,Īnd making sure that all library Perl programs and modules use #!/usr/local/bin/perl as their 'shebang' line. The version of Perl executed by programs will depend on the shebang line at the top of the file, and that is where library files will be searched for.

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If you then update CPAN, it will install Perl modules into that version's libraries. On recent versions of OS X, installing certain ports will cause Macports to install a later version of Perl (on Sierra, it installed 5.24, and 5.26 for High Sierra and Mojave). This is a small loss since the versions they had been shipping with the OS were usually downrev.įor Catalina, I will install a later version of Perl, as a side effect of the various ports I install.Īpple provides Perl 5.16 with Mavericks and Yosemite, and 5.18.2 with El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave.) (Apple has announced that in versions of macOS after Catalina, they will not provide Python, Perl, or Ruby. jpg filesĭon't install tidy from macports. Mavericks, El Capitan, and Sierra come with 2.6.9, MacPorts installs 3.1.2 this drags in a lot of prerequisite packages including Ghostscript and Perl.

Now you can do sudo port install xxx for all the modules you want. bash_profile to add /opt/bin and /opt/sbin to your PATH. If you are upgrading an old installation and encounter failures, you could try doing sudo port -fp uninstall installed.

pkg installer for your macOS version and download and install it. Install the Xcode command line tools (free from Apple) by doing sudo xcode-select -install.įrom, choose the.

Here are instructions for setting up a 64-bit Macports, If you are upgrading from a previous version, see. I switched from Macports to Homebrew in September 2021 on Big Sur (macOS 11.6)īecause I had trouble installing programs using MacPorts. You can use either or use both and install some packages with one tool and some with the other. You should setup your PATH and other environment options according to Section 2.5, “MacPorts and the Shell”.Macports provides hundreds of Open Source Unix tools compiled for OS X, free. Now MacPorts will look for portfiles in the working copy and use Git instead of rsync Should look like this: rsync:///macports/release/tarballs/ports.tar Ĭhange it to point to the working copy you checked out: file:///opt/mports/macports-ports opt/local/etc/macports/nf in a text editor. Check out the ports tree from git: $ cd /opt/mports $ git clone This step is useful if you want to do port development. (Optional) Configure MacPorts to use port information from Git configure -enable-readline $ make $ sudo make install $ make distclean configure to relocate MacPorts to another directory if needed. MacPorts uses autoconf and makefiles for installation. $ mkdir -p /opt/mports $ cd /opt/mports $ git clone $ cd macports-base $ git checkout v2.8.1 # skip this if you want to use the development version Will create /opt/mports/macports-base containing everything needed for opt/mports will be used, but you can put the source anywhere. Pick a location to store a working copy of the MacPorts code.