How to start an app?

[Jason Swails]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:44 AM, John <konaexpress at mail.com> wrote:

> Hi, at the risk of sounding like an idiot, how do you start/find an app
> that you installed using MacPorts?


Not all programs are turned into apps that are dumped into the
/Applications/MacPorts folder.  Some of them are just binaries that reside
in /opt/local/bin that you have to launch from the terminal itself.
However, there are also some ports (like ImageMagick) that do not build
*any* programs that even resemble the package name.  Another example is
synergy, which builds 2 binaries synergyc and synergys.  The "contents"
property of the port command takes the guesswork out of all of this.

Use the command: "port contents <package>" to list all of the files
added/installed for a particular port.  In your case

port contents koffice

I'm guessing you'll see something like /opt/local/bin/<something> (koffice,
kwrite, kcalc? I've never used that suite before).  Then, just write that as
a command on the command-line and it will open the program.

Hope this helps,
Jason

I am not new t Macs but I am new to the unix side of it. Using MacPorts is
> the first time I have ever used the terminal in about 12 years of using a
> Mac. I installed Macports and then installed Koffice but I can not find an
> icon to start it. Then I downloaded Pallet and I was able to find it in the
> MacPort folder and used it to install Geany so I can learn Python. Pallet
> can not find Koffice in it's listings, it also said that I installed Geany
> but I can not find the "Launcher" for it. Do I have to use the term to start
> a program? If so, what do I put in? i.e. "start" or "begin" and then the app
> name?
>
>
> Thanks for the help guys -John
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Jason M. Swails
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