Simple Question, Invalid Link

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sep 9, 2014, at 6:28 AM, Alejandro Imass <aimass at yabarana.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Jerry Zhang <jerryzh168 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Actually I want to verify the some security property for several softwares on ubuntu apt package manager, it seems that they are only in apt, not brew or macport, that’s why I was trying to install apt using macport the other day, hoping to install them on mac.
> 
> Sometimes package names will not match exactly but almost surely any software available via apt/dpkg is packaged from a more generic source distribution and most likely available in MacPorts if it's a popular package and would not be so hard to port otherwise. I suggest you research what the original project source is (unless of course is a proprietary and closed binary software made for specifically for Ubuntu (e.g. Skype for Linux)). Usually the language is a tell-tale sign of where and how the package could be sourced for MacPorts or simply download the source and compile yourself. 
> 
> Even if the package is not directly in MacPorts, most likely a lot of the dependencies and tools necessary to build it are. Examples are any packages originally developed in C, Java,  Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. In these cases, even though the package itself is not directly in MacPorts, most or all the base tools would so building from source is usually very easy. 

As Alejandro says, just because a piece of software isn't in MacPorts currently doesn't mean that it couldn't be in the future. You're welcome to submit a request ticket for any software you'd like to see included in MacPorts.

https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets

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