On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Phillip Koebbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I was not taking about the general question as you mentioned. A smaller step is to just prompt macport packages. -- Regards, Peng _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
