where does macports installs programs?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Fabrizio Salvatore <
p.fabrizio.salvatore at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I am installing 'root5' using macports and, in order to use it later on, I
> will have to define a few environment variables that point to where is the
> location of root5 on my Mac (ROOTSYS, LD_LIBRARY_PATH); is there a way to
> find out what is the default location where the command:
>

I sincerely hope they are not actually telling you to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
OS X is not Linux and setting that stands a very good chance of breaking
things badly.

sudo port install root5
>

Not beforehand although usually it's /opt/local/bin. `port contents root5`
after installing it will show you the paths of all the installed files,
though.

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