[X-Unix] Anybody still there?

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Mar 26, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> On Mar 26, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Steve Morris wrote:
>
>> Well Juan on your word I installed macports from the dbg pkg file.  
>> I don't find tar, find or top in that distribution. To rectify this  
>> I'm wandering through the wiki pages and documentation a little  
>> lost. There seems to be lots of documentation but I don't seem to  
>> find an introduction or getting started doc that explains what is  
>> in macport by default and what if any extensions I might be missing.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Steve,
>
> As long as your updated your PATH environment variable, you should  
> have /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin in your PATH.  You can check  
> by typing 'echo $PATH' on a command line.  You should see /opt/local/ 
> bin and /opt/local/sbin listed.  That hurdle leapt, you can install  
> coreutils:
>
> # sudo port install coreutils
>
> This will install all the coreutils you seek in /opt hierarchy.  In  
> order to use them, you should alias them in your .profile or .cshrc,  
> depending on your shell, to the command names you want.
>
> In my .cshrc, I have:
> alias ls /opt/local/bin/ls
> alias find /opt/local/bin/find
> ..etc
>
> It helps tremendously if you're familiar with the FreeBSD ports  
> tree, after which MacPorts has been modeled. You can search the  
> installable tree with 'port search <pattern>'.
>
> HTH
>
> ---
> Eric Crist



	The pkg installer has a "postflight" script that should take care of  
creating the necessary shell environment upon first installation, so  
manual tinkering shouldn't be needed (for my sake, since I wrote the  
script ;-)

	In any case, the man page should be helpful with all the options to  
the port(1) command, and www.macports.org/ports.php is a good place to  
search for ports in a more graphical manner.

	Regards,...


- jmpp

PS: http://www.macports.org/contact.php is where to read up on all the  
support venues MacPorts offers.