On 22/03/2012, at 10:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm a new user, and I think this is how I ask a question. I am downloading > the digiKam photo application, and to do that, I was required to download > Xcode and Macports. I downloaded Xcode 3.0 and then I downloaded Macports. > In the terminal, it said: > > "Warning: The installed version of Xcode (3.0) is known to cause problems. > Version 3.1.4 or later is recommended on Mac OS X 10.5." > > > So now I have downloaded 3.1.4 Xcode. Do I need to reinstall Macports > because of the new Xcode version? I am worried that during the Macports > installation, it said that certain things being downloaded were not found > (written in the Terminal window), and I wonder if that's because I had an > older version of Xcode that it says causes problems. But I'm worried that > if I uninstall Macports, I might mess something up, especially since > MacPorts website says uninstalling can be a drastic action. Honestly, I > don't really know what Macports is at the moment (should look into that). > I just downloaded because of digiKam. I didn't have it before, so how can > uninstalling be drastic? Does it have to do with the software I download > using MacPorts? I'd assume since I haven't made the final step of > downloading digiKam, it would be okay to uninstlal since I haven't used > MacPorts. I've opened/installed it but have not used it to download > software. > > And does Xcode come with your Apple computer? MacPorts does not? And digiKam does not build either on macports or on fink. James _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
