On 02/04/2013 09:38, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. April 2013, 09:29:28 schrieb Phil Dobbin: >> If not, the old fashioned way of installing via a tarball is pretty much >> the way to go. Linux is pretty much set up out the box to do this (after >> installing 'Development Tools' or build-essential & so on) so it's >> usually no sweat. > > This is what pkgsrc uses as a interoperable solution (afaik there are some > pkgsrc peoples here within macports) BUT including a clean software > management > allowing clean installs, deinstall, rolling updates, feature management etc. > (as macport does on Mac only). > > If the "stable" stuff in pkgsrc is "to old" you may take an additional look > at > pkgsrc-wip where you find work in progress ports. > > http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/ > > If you want software not existing in pkgsrc you may add it byself as under > maports too. > > A simple example on using / installing pkgsrc i.e. on CentOS: > htttp://ohess.org/pub/using-pkgsrc-on-centos-55 > or Debian: > http://ohess.org/pub/using-pkgsrc-on-debian-squeeze
That's a new one on me. Thanks, Niels, I'll check it out. Cheers, Phil... _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
