[30355] trunk/www/install.php
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Thu Oct 25 09:54:20 PDT 2007
Revision: 30355
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/30355
Author: jmpp at macports.org
Date: 2007-10-25 09:54:19 -0700 (Thu, 25 Oct 2007)
Log Message:
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Miscellaneous whitespace changes.
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trunk/www/install.php
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--- trunk/www/install.php 2007-10-25 16:42:03 UTC (rev 30354)
+++ trunk/www/install.php 2007-10-25 16:54:19 UTC (rev 30355)
@@ -13,16 +13,18 @@
<h2 class="hdr">Installing MacPorts</h2>
- <p>MacPorts version <?php print $mp_version_major; ?> is available in various formats for download and installation:</p>
+ <p>MacPorts version <?php print $mp_version_major; ?> is available in various formats for download and installation:
+ </p>
<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 intallation 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>
+ 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 intallation 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>
</ul>
@@ -38,12 +40,12 @@
<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>The X11 windowing environment (A.K.A. “X11 User”) and its related SDK package (“X11
- SDK”) for ports that depend on the functioanlity they provide to compile and run.
+ <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.
</ul>
@@ -57,12 +59,12 @@
<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>
+ 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
@@ -76,15 +78,16 @@
<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>
@@ -99,19 +102,22 @@
</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>
+ 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>
+ <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>
@@ -125,11 +131,12 @@
<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 our 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 our documentation
+ in raw form):</p>
<pre>svn co <?php print $svn_url . 'trunk'; ?></pre>
@@ -142,8 +149,8 @@
<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 FreeBSD and GNU/Linux.</p>
+ 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 FreeBSD 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>
@@ -153,24 +160,25 @@
<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>Naturally 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>Naturally 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">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>
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