MacPorts/GNU Software for Macs

The Mac installer for MacPorts can be downloaded here.

First you may need to set your $PATH variable. Do this by adding the following to your .bash_profile file in your home directory

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

• subversion and subversion-javahlbindings:

  sudo port install subversion
  sudo port install subversion-javahlbindings

• python and py-lint (used by the Eclipse PyDev plugin)

  sudo port install py25-lint
  sudo port install python_select
  sudo python_select python25

• Mysql (mysql5), the MySQL Connector/J (mysql-connector-java), and the python interface to MySQL (py-mysql)
• Unison file synchroniser
• rdflib: The python rdf library

  sudo port install py-rdflib

If you get the following error:

checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

it is possible that you do not have XCode installed, or not the most up-to-date version installed.

If you get an error like this (I got this when trying to install subversion):

configure: error: No awk program found

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: apr-util sqlite3 gawk gettext ncurses ncursesw gmake readline cyrus-sasl2 openssl zlib neon serf
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

To solve this I simply reran the command. It worked fine the second time… don't know why though

The locate tool is great for finding files on the command line. If you get the following error:

 
locate: `/var/db/locate.database': No such file or directory

you will need to do the following:

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

This may take a few minutes to build your locate database (solution found here).