Tips and Tricks for macOS

The MacPorts Project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.5.4. This is a bugfix release with small changes only. See the ChangeLog for the list of changes. Release 2.5.4 (2018-10-03 by jmr)     - Fixed a reclaim failure when the distfiles option contains a list       of one or more empty strings. (#56786, jmr in 8a67087)     - Changed the 'default' command to not require overquoting of the       default value that is being set. (jmr in 8434c0e)     - Indicate that i386 is not supported by the macOS 10.14 SDK.       (jmr in 60544ce) If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run: sudo port selfupdate or sudo port upgrade outdated https://www.macports.org/post/macports-254-now-available/

Install MacOS “Mojave” Connect to the internet Install Xcode 10 from the App Store. Launch Xcode: Agree to the license. Let it install the extra components it says it needs. Quit xcode. Open a terminal window: sudo xcode-select –install When the pop-up launches, install the command line tools. cd ~/Downloads mkdir macports cd macports curl -O https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.5.3.tar.gz tar -xzvf MacPorts-2.5.3.tar.gz cd MacPorts-2.5.3 ./configure make sudo make install echo ‘export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH’ >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile sudo port -v selfupdate