On Jan 17, 2014, at 18:57, John Graybeal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It should be the same as for any version: download the installer package and
>> run it.
>
> the site I found for 1.7.1 download (had all the historical Macports
> releases) only had the tar.gz2, which I unpacked, bu tthere was no installer
> package (that I recognized), no README, and I couldn't decipher what the
> top-level Make command would be ('Make clean' didn't work; may have given up
> too early on this path though). And I couldn't make install.sh go either.
>
> could have been operator error, but I think it was underdocumented.
>
> john
>
> <Screen Shot 2014-01-17 at 4.55.39 PM.png>
That’s the source code, not the pre-compiled installer. To use the source code,
you would need to compile it; we have separate instructions for that:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts#source_privileged
Installing the pre-compiled binaries is easier:
https://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.7.1/
However Leopard was the newest OS X version available at the time, so that’s
the newest OS for which a pre-compiled binary of 1.7.1 exists, and you
shouldn’t install that on newer OS X versions.
So uninstalling the old version like you did is indeed best.
A lot has changed in MacPorts since 2005. Let us know if you have any questions.
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