[31419] trunk/www/install.php
jmpp at macports.org
jmpp at macports.org
Thu Nov 22 12:24:57 PST 2007
Revision: 31419
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/31419
Author: jmpp at macports.org
Date: 2007-11-22 12:24:56 -0800 (Thu, 22 Nov 2007)
Log Message:
-----------
Whitespace changes.
Modified Paths:
--------------
trunk/www/install.php
Modified: trunk/www/install.php
===================================================================
--- trunk/www/install.php 2007-11-22 19:57:58 UTC (rev 31418)
+++ trunk/www/install.php 2007-11-22 20:24:56 UTC (rev 31419)
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@
<ul>
<li>“dmg” disk images for <a href="<?php print $leopard_dmg; ?>">Leopard (Universal)</a>, <a
href="<?php print $tiger_dmg; ?>">Tiger (Universal)</a> and <a href="<?php print $panther_dmg; ?>">Panther (PowerPC)
- </a>, containing pkg installers for use with the Mac OS X Installer. By far the simplest installation procedure
- that most users should <a href="#pkg">follow</a> after meeting the requirements listed <a href="#requirements">
- below</a>.</li>
- <li>In <a href="#source">source form</a> as either a <a href="<?php print $bz2_tarball ?>">tar.bz2</a> package
- or a <a href="<?php print $gz_tarball; ?>">tar.gz</a> one for manual compilation, if you intend to customize your
- installation in any way.</li>
+ </a>, containing pkg installers for use with the Mac OS X Installer. By far the simplest installation procedure that
+ most users should <a href="#pkg">follow</a> after meeting the requirements listed <a href="#requirements">below</a>.</li>
+ <li>In <a href="#source">source form</a> as either a <a href="<?php print $bz2_tarball ?>">tar.bz2</a> package or a
+ <a href="<?php print $gz_tarball; ?>">tar.gz</a> one for manual compilation, if you intend to customize your installation
+ in any way.</li>
<li><a href="#svn">SVN checkout</a> of the unpackaged sources, if you wish to follow MacPorts development.</li>
<li>The <a href="#selfupdate">selfupdate</a> target of the <kbd>port(1)</kbd> command, for users who already have
MacPorts installed and wish to upgrade to a new release.</li>
@@ -36,18 +35,18 @@
<div id="requirements">
- <p>Please note that in order to install and run MacPorts on Mac OS X, your system must have installations of the
- following components:</p>
+ <p>Please note that in order to install and run MacPorts on Mac OS X, your system must have installations of the following
+ components:</p>
<ol>
- <li>Apple's Developer Tools, found at the <a href="http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/"> Apple Developer
- site</a> or on your Mac OS X installation CDs/DVD.</li>
+ <li>Apple's Developer Tools, found at the <a href="http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/"> Apple Developer site</a>
+ or on your Mac OS X installation CDs/DVD.</li>
<li>The X11 windowing environment (A.K.A. “X11 User”) and its related SDK package (“X11SDK”)
for ports that depend on the functioanlity they provide to compile and run.
<ul>
- <li>the “X11 User” package is an optional installation on your system CDs/DVD for Panther
- and Tiger, enabled through the “Customize” button of the installer, whereas it is included
- by default on Leopard.</li>
+ <li>the “X11 User” package is an optional installation on your system CDs/DVD for Panther and
+ Tiger, enabled through the “Customize” button of the installer, whereas it is included by default
+ on Leopard.</li>
<li>the “X11 SDK” package from the Developer Tools will be automatically installed if “X11
User” is already installed, so be sure to install that first.</li>
</ul>
@@ -59,20 +58,19 @@
<h3 class="subhdr" id="pkg">Mac OS X Package (.pkg) Installer</h3>
- <p>The easiest way to install MacPorts on a Mac OS X system is by downloading the dmg for <a href="<?php print $leopard_dmg; ?>">
- Leopard (Universal)</a>, <a href="<?php print $tiger_dmg; ?>">Tiger (Universal)</a> or <a href="<?php print $panther_dmg; ?>">
- Panther (PowerPC)</a>, respectively, and running the system's Installer by double clicking on the pkg contained therein,
+ <p>The easiest way to install MacPorts on a Mac OS X system is by downloading the dmg for <a href="<?php print $leopard_dmg;
+ ?>">Leopard (Universal)</a>, <a href="<?php print $tiger_dmg; ?>">Tiger (Universal)</a> or <a href="<?php print $panther_dmg;
+ ?>">Panther (PowerPC)</a>, respectively, and running the system's Installer by double clicking on the pkg contained therein,
following the on-screen instructions until completion.</p>
- <p>This procedure will place a fully functional and default MacPorts installation on your host system, ready for
- usage. If needed your shell configuration files will be adapted by the installer to include the necessary settings
- to run MacPorts and the programs it installs, but you may need to open a new shell for these changes to take effect.
- </p>
+ <p>This procedure will place a fully functional and default MacPorts installation on your host system, ready for usage.
+ If needed your shell configuration files will be adapted by the installer to include the necessary settings to run MacPorts
+ and the programs it installs, but you may need to open a new shell for these changes to take effect.</p>
- <p>The MacPorts “<kbd>selfupdate</kbd>” command will be run for you by the installer to ensure you have
- our latest available release and the latest revisions to the “Portfiles” that contain the instructions
- employed in the building and installation of ports. After installation is done, it is recommended that you run this
- step manually on a regular basis to to keep your MacPorts system always current:</p>
+ <p>The MacPorts “<kbd>selfupdate</kbd>” command will be run for you by the installer to ensure you have our
+ latest available release and the latest revisions to the “Portfiles” that contain the instructions employed
+ in the building and installation of ports. After installation is done, it is recommended that you run this step manually
+ on a regular basis to to keep your MacPorts system always current:</p>
<pre>sudo port -d selfupdate</pre>
@@ -85,16 +83,15 @@
<h3 class="subhdr" id="source">Source Installation</h3>
- <p>If on the other hand you decide to install MacPorts from source there are still a couple of things you will need
- to do after downloading the tarball before you can start installing ports, namely compiling and installing MacPorts
- itself:</p>
+ <p>If on the other hand you decide to install MacPorts from source there are still a couple of things you will need to do
+ after downloading the tarball before you can start installing ports, namely compiling and installing MacPorts itself:</p>
<ol>
<li>“<kbd>cd</kbd>” into the directory where you downloaded the package and run “<kbd>tar xjvf
<a href="<?php print $bz2_tarball; ?>">MacPorts-<?php print $mp_version_major; ?>.tar.bz2</a></kbd>” or
- “<kbd>tar xzvf <a href="<?php print $gz_tarball; ?>">MacPorts-<?php print $mp_version_major; ?>.tar.gz</a>
- </kbd>”, depending on whether you downloaded the bz2 tarball or the gz one, respectively.</li>
+ “<kbd>tar xzvf <a href="<?php print $gz_tarball; ?>">MacPorts-<?php print $mp_version_major; ?>.tar.gz</a></kbd>”,
+ depending on whether you downloaded the bz2 tarball or the gz one, respectively.</li>
<li>Build and install the recently unpacked sources:
<ul>
<li><kbd>cd MacPorts-<?php print $mp_version_major; ?></kbd></li>
@@ -109,22 +106,20 @@
</li>
</ol>
- <p>These steps need to be perfomed from an administrator account, for which “<kbd>sudo</kbd>” will ask
- the password upon installation. This procedure will install a pristine MacPorts system and, if the optional steps are
- taken, remove the as of now unnecessary MacPorts-<?php print $mp_version_major; ?> source directory and corresponding
- tarball.</p>
+ <p>These steps need to be perfomed from an administrator account, for which “<kbd>sudo</kbd>” will ask the
+ password upon installation. This procedure will install a pristine MacPorts system and, if the optional steps are taken,
+ remove the as of now unnecessary MacPorts-<?php print $mp_version_major; ?> source directory and corresponding tarball.</p>
- <p>To customize your installation you should read the output of “<kbd>./configure --help | more</kbd>”
- and pass the appropriate options for the settings you wish to tweak to the configuration script in the steps detailed
- above.</p>
+ <p>To customize your installation you should read the output of “<kbd>./configure --help | more</kbd>” and
+ pass the appropriate options for the settings you wish to tweak to the configuration script in the steps detailed above.</p>
<p>You will need to manually adapt your shell's environment to work with MacPorts and your chosen installation <kbd>
prefix</kbd> (the value passed to <kbd>configure</kbd>'s <kbd>--prefix</kbd> flag, defaulting to <kbd>/opt/local</kbd>):
</p>
<ul>
- <li><kbd>Add ${prefix}/bin</kbd> and <kbd>${prefix}/sbin</kbd> to the start of your <kbd>PATH</kbd> environment
- variable so that MacPorts installed programs take precedence over equally named system provided programs.</li>
+ <li><kbd>Add ${prefix}/bin</kbd> and <kbd>${prefix}/sbin</kbd> to the start of your <kbd>PATH</kbd> environment variable
+ so that MacPorts installed programs take precedence over equally named system provided programs.</li>
<li>Add an appropriate X11 <kbd>DISPLAY</kbd> environment variable to run X11 dependent programs.</li>
</ul>
@@ -134,19 +129,18 @@
<p>Upon completion MacPorts will be ready to install ports! </p>
- <p>It is recommended to run the above command on a regular basis to keep your installation current. Type “<kbd>
- man port</kbd>” at the command line prompt and/or browse over to our <a href="<?php print $guide_url; ?>">Guide
- </a> to find out more information about using MacPorts. <a href="#help">Help</a> is also available.</p>
+ <p>It is recommended to run the above command on a regular basis to keep your installation current. Type “<kbd>man
+ port</kbd>” at the command line prompt and/or browse over to our <a href="<?php print $guide_url; ?>">Guide</a> to
+ find out more information about using MacPorts. <a href="#help">Help</a> is also available.</p>
<h3 class="subhdr" id="svn">SVN Sources</h3>
- <p>If you are developer or a user with a taste for the bleeding edge and wish for the latest changes and feature
- additions, you may acquire the MacPorts sources through SVN.</p>
+ <p>If you are developer or a user with a taste for the bleeding edge and wish for the latest changes and feature additions,
+ you may acquire the MacPorts sources through SVN.</p>
- <p>Use the following command to check the project's “trunk” out of the MacPorts anonymous subversion
- repository, containing all of our source modules (MacPorts' “base”, the ports tree and all of
- documentation in raw form):</p>
+ <p>Use the following command to check the project's “trunk” out of the MacPorts anonymous subversion repository,
+ containing all of our source modules (MacPorts' “base”, the ports tree and all of documentation in raw form):</p>
<pre>svn co <?php print $svn_url . 'trunk'; ?></pre>
@@ -166,37 +160,36 @@
<h3 class="subhdr">Other Platforms</h3>
- <p>Running on platforms other than Mac OS X is not the main focus of The MacPorts Project, so remaining cross-platform
- is not an actively pursued development goal. Nevertheless, it is not an actively discouraged goal either and as a
- result some experimental support does exist for other POSIX compliant platforms such as *BSD and GNU/Linux.</p>
+ <p>Running on platforms other than Mac OS X is not the main focus of The MacPorts Project, so remaining cross-platform is
+ not an actively pursued development goal. Nevertheless, it is not an actively discouraged goal either and as a result some
+ experimental support does exist for other POSIX compliant platforms such as *BSD and GNU/Linux.</p>
- <p>The full list of requirements to run MacPorts on these other platforms is as follows (we assume you have the
- basics such as GCC and X11):</p>
+ <p>The full list of requirements to run MacPorts on these other platforms is as follows (we assume you have the basics such
+ as GCC and X11):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl</a> (8.3 or 8.4), with threads</li>
<li><a href="http://gnustep.org/">GNUstep</a> (Base), for Foundation</li>
<li><a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">rsync</a> for syncing the ports</li>
<li><a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">cURL</a> for downloading distfiles</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.openssl.org/">OpenSSL</a> or <a href="http://martin.hinner.info/libmd/">libmd</a> for
- checksums</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.openssl.org/">OpenSSL</a> or <a href="http://martin.hinner.info/libmd/">libmd</a> for checksums</li>
</ul>
- <p>Normally you must install from <a href="#source">source</a> or from an <a href="#svn">SVN checkout</a> to run
- MacPorts on any of these platforms.</p>
+ <p>Normally you must install from <a href="#source">source</a> or from an <a href="#svn">SVN checkout</a> to run MacPorts
+ on any of these platforms.</p>
<h3 class="subhdr" id="help">Help</h3>
- <p>Help on a wide variety of topics is also available in the project <a href="<?php print $guide_url; ?>">Guide</a>
- and through our <a href="<?php print $trac_url; ?>">Trac portal</a> should you run into any problems installing and/or
- using MacPorts. Of particular relevance are the <a href="<?php print $guide_url . '#installing'; ?>">installation</a>
- & <a href="<?php print $guide_url . '#using'; ?>">usage</a> sections of the former and the <a href="<?php print
- $trac_url . 'wiki/FAQ'; ?>">FAQ</a> section of the <a href="<?php print $trac_url . 'wiki'; ?>">Wiki</a>, where track
- of quesitons that are fielded often on our <a href="contact.php#lists">mailing lists</a> is kept.</p>
+ <p>Help on a wide variety of topics is also available in the project <a href="<?php print $guide_url; ?>">Guide</a> and
+ through our <a href="<?php print $trac_url; ?>">Trac portal</a> should you run into any problems installing and/or using
+ MacPorts. Of particular relevance are the <a href="<?php print $guide_url . '#installing'; ?>">installation</a> &
+ <a href="<?php print $guide_url . '#using'; ?>">usage</a> sections of the former and the <a href="<?php print $trac_url .
+ 'wiki/FAQ'; ?>">FAQ</a> section of the <a href="<?php print $trac_url . 'wiki'; ?>">Wiki</a>, where track of quesitons that
+ are fielded often on our <a href="contact.php#lists">mailing lists</a> is kept.</p>
- <p>If any of these resources do not answer your questions or if you need any kind of extended support, there are many
- ways to <a href="contact.php">contact us</a>!</p>
+ <p>If any of these resources do not answer your questions or if you need any kind of extended support, there are many ways
+ to <a href="contact.php">contact us</a>!</p>
</div>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-changes/attachments/20071122/35c77a6d/attachment-0001.html
More information about the macports-changes
mailing list