After talking my father through installing things, I have a couple of
suggestions for the page
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/docs/ch01s03.html
Which is (AFAIK) intended to be the step-by-step hand-holding instructions.
In the section:
Installing DarwinPorts
After: sudo make install
Add something like: This will usually ask for a password - this needs to be the
Administrator password for the machine. Root privileges are needed for ... (I
assume it's to create /opt/local as root/admin, anything else?)
Two paragraphs later:_IF_ you wish to configure..., instead of 'To
configure'... (It is marked optional)
In the next paragraph: "If you aren't sure how, execute the following in your
shell:
set | grep -i shell
If it returns something containing "/bin/tcsh" add "set path=($path
/opt/local/bin)" to your ~/.cshrc file. (This is the default for Mac OS X
previous to 10.3.)
If it returns something containing /bin/bash add "export
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin" to your ~/.profile file. (This is the new default on
Mac OS X as of 10.3)
You may well need to create one (but only one!) of those files. Any text editor
(including TextEdit in 'PlainText' mode) can do so.
_If_ you've done this correctly, a _new_shell_ should allow 'man port' to work,
which should be perused for further information.
The web page also refers to the default installation locations under Jaguar -
where the man page (correctly) notices the change from
"/System/Library/Tcl/8.3/darwinports1.0" to "/Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0" post
10.3
Thanks again for your efforts folks!
--
Alan S. Blue
alansblue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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