Articles tagged with macports

1. [MacPorts] upgrade gnutls failed

   Posted on December 07, 2015 in System Administration

   

   I ran into this issue while trying to install wine-devel on my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro running El Capitan and MacPorts 2.3.4. As the install progressed, here is the error I got:

   Error: org.macports.build for port glib2 returned: command execution failed
   Please see the log file …

2. Installing Unison 2.27.57 via MacPorts

   Posted on June 13, 2011 in System Administration

   I've mentioned before that I use Unison to keep a few important directories synchronized between my various workstations and file server. I made the switch to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS recently, and started using its unison 2.27.57 package. This breaks all of my Macs that use unison 2 …

3. rsync: on remote machine: --extended-attributes: unknown option

   Posted on May 27, 2011 in System Administration

   rsync: on remote machine: --extended-attributes: unknown option
   

   If this is the output you get when running rsync, you are almost certainly running the Mac OS X version of rsync -E on the client with something else on the server side. The fix is to install the MacPorts version of rsync …

4. Installing RubyGems with MacPorts

   Posted on October 30, 2007 in Programming

   Quick note.

   I recently needed to install a few RubyGems on my Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) development system. I use MacPorts to keep my system consistent, but MacPorts was causing the problem. Here's a look at the output I was getting while trying to install Active Support.

   $ sudo …

5. MacPorts Updated to v1.5

   Posted on August 27, 2007 in Software

   Somehow I managed to miss the fact that Mac OS Forge released MacPorts v1.5. If you aren't familiar with MacPorts, it's the reincarnation of DarwinPorts under the Mac OS Forge / Apple banner. For any UNIX admin, or serious OS X-er, MacPorts is an extensive collection of UNIX tools ported …