Re: what's .macports?
On Feb 15, 2008, at 18:13, Mack Johnson wrote: I just did a fresh install of leopard, I also updated to latest 10.5.2. I just installed MacPorts-1.6.0, but I get command not found. Yes. This is a bug in 1.6.0 which will be fixed in 1.6.1. For now, you need to set up your .profile yourself. See the Guide: http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell I also notice there's a folder in my home called .macports, I have no .profile. Yes I have the Xcode Tools installed. Should I create a profile? What is the .macpots for? Yes, you should create a .profile (or .bash_profile if you prefer) and set it up as per the Guide, since the 1.6.0 installer is broken in that it does not do this for you. The .macports directory on my system contains a single file, history, which contains the history of commands that I have typed in the MacPorts interactive mode. So, the directory serves that purpose, at least. I'm not sure if it has another purpose. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
Re: what's .macports?
At Friday 15/02/2008 16:13 -0800, Mack Johnson wrote: I just did a fresh install of leopard, I also updated to latest 10.5.2. I just installed MacPorts-1.6.0, but I get command not found. I also notice there's a folder in my home called .macports, I have no .profile. Yes I have the Xcode Tools installed. Should I create a profile? What is the .macpots for? I went through this. MacPorts 1.6.0 installer is buggy, and doesn't run the script that installs stuff on your path and .profile - to be fixed in 1.6.1. So I did what that did by hand, and then had MacPorts throw CoreFoundation fork errors at me, which is apparently unusual. No fix. Details starting at: http://www.nabble.com/macports-installation-vs-10.5.1-Xcode-3.0--td15317391.html So I gave up on MacPorts and tried fink http://www.finkproject.org/. Some minor-in-retrospect problems there - Leopard currently requires compiling a source tarball, online instructions need work - but I'm up and running with Fink. Details starting at: http://www.nabble.com/Fink-source-on-Leopard---installs-itself-fine%2C-but-doesn%27t-work--td15396389.html Neither MacPorts or Fink seems to be as seamless to install as Cygwin (which gives a unix-like environment on Windows) but then Cygwin has had many years' head start in ironing out glitches. And I've just found and deleted that empty .macports folder you mentioned... L. http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
what's .macports?
I just did a fresh install of leopard, I also updated to latest 10.5.2. I just installed MacPorts-1.6.0, but I get command not found. I also notice there's a folder in my home called .macports, I have no .profile. Yes I have the Xcode Tools installed. Should I create a profile? What is the .macpots for?___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
