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Easily install open source software with MacPorts

May 21st, 2007 - Command Line, Development, Mac OS X

MacPorts, formerly DarwinPorts, is a free opensource app that allows Mac users to easily install command line software in Mac OS X. If this sounds to you like Fink, well, you’d be right because it’s pretty close. Functionality is much the same, but some people swear that MacPorts (or Fink) is better than the other. MacPorts is probably best for more advanced Mac users who have some experience with the command line, because MacPorts itself is also a command line tool.

After you install MacPorts, using it is pretty easy, you can search for, update, and install software with just a few commands.

Search for software with MacPorts (replace irssi with your package):
port search irssi

Install software with MacPorts (replace irssi with your package):
sudo port -v install irssi

Update all installed ports to most recent versions:
sudo port upgrade outdated

If you would prefer to use a GUI to install command line software, try out Fink Commander, which performs much the same as MacPorts but through a GUI interface. There are several GUI options available for MacPorts but most of them are shareware or commercial, and why pay for something that is free?

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Comments: 10

Comment from suresure
Time: May 21, 2007, 7:22 am

fink is better, macports is all outdated and slow

Comment from Maciek
Time: May 21, 2007, 1:20 pm

When I was trying out Fink, I decided to install Subversion as first thing.

I quickly found out the most recent svn binary package is at version 1.2 (well, a BIT outdated), so I decided to go with building most recent ver from source and I ended on building whole Apache 2 with whole subset of not really neccesary libraries.

When I was trying to build some other console app (don’t remeber what exactly right now), Fink asked me for confirmation to build xorg from sources.

I said “NO!” and currently I am completely happy with MacPorts. Maybe selection of packages is not so huge as in Fink, but quality is definitely better.

That’s my 5 cents…

Comment from cos
Time: May 21, 2007, 5:42 pm

“I decided to go with building most recent ver from source and I ended on building whole Apache 2 with whole subset of not really neccesary libraries.”

well, macports does the same, y’know – the build-time dependencies for subversion are the same.

hopefully macports’ summer of code task to build binary packages will bear fruit…

Comment from ed
Time: May 21, 2007, 7:22 pm

hey am a rookie to this one question after you install a program how do l open the program

Comment from Jeamr
Time: May 21, 2007, 8:04 pm

ed, you use the terminal, type port in the terminal

Comment from Frank
Time: May 22, 2007, 3:50 am

There’s also prefix-portage, it uses stuff developed on Linux, and nowadays works great on Mac OS. All packages are bleading edge, no outdate stuff.
See also: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/index.xml

Comment from Adam
Time: January 17, 2008, 5:03 pm

w00t! thanks for this command……

Comment from werw
Time: June 11, 2008, 4:10 am

“I decided to go with building most recent ver from source and I ended on building whole Apache 2 with whole subset of not really neccesary libraries.”
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Comment from John Doe
Time: March 10, 2010, 4:59 pm

I’m having a bit of trouble trying to install fink, I know how to execute the command lines but I can’t even get it to install, OK I get this problem when I trying to install

I typed in Terminal; “./bootstrap” I pick Option 1 from the list then Option 1 again to install the 32-bit(Default) I then enter my pass from sudo command, then comes this

Choose a mode: [1] 2
Checking package… looks good (fink-0.29.10).
Checking system… i386-apple-darwin10.2.0
This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made.
Prerelease versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no
guarantees.
Distribution: 10.6
Architecture: x86_64
Checking cc… not found.
ERROR: There is no C compiler on your system. Make sure that the Developer
Tools are installed.

it tells me there’s no C compiler on my system, but I’ve already downloaded them before because I have Xcode 3.2.1 installed along with the other stuff that came with the Developer Tools. Do I have to re-download it to make it work or do I have to find a C compiler to make this work?

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