On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > On ubuntu, it can prompt me what to do if a package is missing. I'm > wondering if there is anything similar on mac. > > ~$ hg > The program 'hg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: > sudo apt-get install mercurial >
Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, it's built around APT and knows what's installed. I know of nothing built-in, either in the Mac OS or in MacPorts, that could do the same thing. Since there are various ways of installing software on a Mac (download a dmg/pkg, Mac App Store, MacPorts, Homebrew, self-compile, etc), and you can have software installed in various places (/opt, /sw, /usr/local, /Applications, ~/Applications, etc), I'm inclined to think it would be quite difficult to pull off for a third party application. But, those are just my thoughts and they could be quite wrong. Peace, Phillip _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
