Tips for reinstalling DarwinPorts

✎ Published: 2006-01-04 10:30:30

DarwinPorts installation can be challenging, even for experienced users. I faced difficulties with my installation, particularly when working with Gnome and patching X11. For those encountering similar issues, a set of scripts is available to simplify the DarwinPorts installation process.

Tips for reinstalling DarwinPorts

We already mentioned DarwinPorts some weeks ago.

DarwinPorts Honestly, I use Gentoo Linux at work (next to Mac OS X) so I'm quite tech-savvy if it comes down to the application installation or compilation, but I still managed to bunk my DarwinPorts installation. Repeatedly. I don't even want to think about when I tried to install Gnome and had to patch my X11 with newer Freetype2 libs.. was a mess... Anyway, if that sounds similar to you, then here's a nice little solution to some of these problems: A set of scripts to simply the DarwinPorts installation.

mac os x, darwin, darwinports, unix