Notes on using macport

What is macport

Macport is a package manager tools on MAC OSX. It works like what apt-get does on Debian system.

Tricks

To save my time in the futures, here are experiences which learnt from painful try and error process.

BASH AUTO competition

There is no auto completion (IE Tab will not work) by default. Please read this for setting up an auto completion.

List of common commands

• port search PKG or port search —regex ‘PKG‘

A command for you to search packages.

• port install PKG

Install a package from macport

• port uninstall PKG

Uninstall a package from macport

• port select PKG VERSION

Select a version for a package. Sometime, packages come with more than one version (py27, py3). This command allows you to select which version will be used when you call python instead of calling python2.7 explicitly.

• man port

A command for reading the manual page of port.

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