And then you can play around. I don't know if MacPorts on Ubuntu (or any
other flavour of Linux) will ever be popular, but you can at least get
started.
I'd like to add for anyone considering trying this -- and anyone more
knowledgeable please chime in -- macports prefers a less-priviledged
macports user, so after a little reading, this seemed to be the proper
set of commands to me:
sudo adduser --system --group --home /opt/local/var/macports/home
--disabled-password macports
sudo chown -R macports:macports /opt/local/var/macports/home
and with that, I see that macports is now building software using the
macports user, as it should. There don't seem to be any permissions
issues cropping up.
I'm thinking I should probably disable startup items, as these are not
set up in a proper fashion yet on Ubuntu, and also I'm not sure what to
do about
/Applications/Macports
as a location for binaries to be deposited.... have to think about that.
But, so far things are installing and appear to be working as they
should, although it is easy to get stuck on a port that doesn't build at
present:
$ port -v installed
The following ports are currently installed:
bzip2 @1.0.8_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-05-02T10:00:33-0700'
gettext @0.19.8.1_2 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-04-30T17:42:46-0700'
gperf @3.1_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-04-30T16:57:02-0700'
libedit @20191231-3.1_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-05-02T10:01:29-0700'
libffi @3.2.1_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-04-30T16:39:06-0700'
libiconv @1.16_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-04-30T17:03:29-0700'
ncurses @6.2_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-04-30T17:22:29-0700'
zlib @1.2.11_0 (active) platform='linux 5' archs='i386'
date='2020-05-02T10:01:45-0700'
(note - these all say archs='i386' but in reality, they are x86_64)
Ken
