Where are GUI apps for ports installed?

Eric A. Borisch eborisch at macports.org
Fri May 10 21:20:38 PDT 2013


Spyder, as it should have pointed out when you installed it, is launched
via the command line, likely with 'spyder.'

  -Eric

On Friday, May 10, 2013, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Jerry <lanceboyle at qwest.net> wrote:
>
>> I have the Spyder port installed and there is a binary for it but it does
>> not install in this location but rather apparently in
>>
>>
>> /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
>>
>
> This is not actually spyder, but the GUI launcher for python. You would
> not normally run this directly; that's hinted at by the fact that the
> executable is under Frameworks/Python.framework (a framework is a library
> with some extensions for native GUI applications --- it is not itself an
> application, although it may contain helper applications).
>
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