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dorus - Jun 23, 2005 - 2:13 pm

Hi all,

I have downloaded and installed Darwinports (to get an image processing program I am interested in), and now need to configure my G5 Mac (system 10.3.9) to find it. Apparently, this requires adding one or more lines to a ~/.profile file in my home directory. I'm not sure how to do this. I tried creating a new blank file in Xtools, and saved it as .profile after first typing in the ~, but I'm not sure where the file ended up. Anyhoo, when I go to Terminal and type

sudo port -d selfupdate

it asks for my password and then says 'port, command not found'.

Any help is greatly appreciated. How do I edit or create .profile, and where should this file be found or saved to?

Dorus

tubajensen - Jun 24, 2005 - 2:28 pm

Marnix,

first of all you won't be able to "see" your .profile because of the "." which makes this file invisible in the Finder. You can however check to see if it exists by opening Terminal and typing

ls -a

and hitting the return key. It should appear somewhere in the list that shows up.
To edit (or create) this file type

cd

and hit return. Now type

sudo pico .profile

and hit return. Then type the following:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin

and save the file by pressing ctrl-x and answering yes to "Save modified buffer".
You should also check out this page:

http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/docs/ch01s03.html

especially the part called "Configuring for DarwinPorts"

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dorus - Jun 24, 2005 - 2:49 pm

Thanks Allen, that looks easy enough. I'll try this when I get home tonight.

Appreciate the feedback!

dorus - Jun 28, 2005 - 3:24 pm

Hi Allen (or anyone else who cares to respond),

I followed your suggestion: the .profile file showed up with the

ls -a

command, and already had the appropriate line in it (I had created that file earlier). Thinking it may have been in the wrong place, I deleted it and recreated one using the

pico ~/.profile

command line, with the 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin' line in it. I also reinstalled Darwinports using cvs, and that went through the configure and make commands without errors. The directory structure shows it's in place.

The I opened a new shell in Terminal, and typed

port list

to which the system responded with 'port: command not found"

So I'm right back to where I was before. I'm thinking I could probably do:

cd opt/local/bin

and then use the port command, but that shouldn't be necessary with the 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin' line in my profile.

Any way you can help me sort this out further?

Thanks.

Marnix

tubajensen - Jun 28, 2005 - 5:47 pm

Actually, I don't use .profile. I use .bash_profile. So you could try to delete the .profile and edit/create the .bash_profile by typing:

sudo pico ~/.bash_profile

and add the line:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/sbin

to it. At least this works for me.

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dorus - Jun 29, 2005 - 11:59 am

Hi Allan, I finally figured it out. Although my system is running 10.3.9, apparently I needed to add a line to a .cshrc file [set path=($path /opt/local/bin)]. This is typically suggested for installing Darwinports under system 10.2, but apparently works under 10.3.9 as well.

Now I'm off to installing the GIMP (need first to do GTK+, libraries, etc.). This better be worth it!

Thanks for the help.

Marnix

tubajensen - Jun 29, 2005 - 2:49 pm

That sounds good. There are different ways to install GIMP on Mac OS X:

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

One doesn't even need DarwinPorts. But it's still good to have for other things.

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