I installed MacPorts successfully and got the following Terminal statement:
Congratulations, you have successfully installed the MacPorts system. To get the Portfiles and update the system, add /opt/local/bin to your PATH and run: sudo port -v selfupdate I have tried many Terminal commands using the PATH environment variable like: PATH=$PATH:~/opt/local/bin which gives me the following error: Bad : modifier in $ (~). and many other similar forms of error. It is only the first step mentioned above that I can't quite figure out - to get the Portfiles. I should also mention that I have downloaded MacPorts before a few years ago. If this is what's causing me to not get these Portfiles I would appreciate any information on how to deal with this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Patrick
