help with installing xorg-server from MacPorts and installing Inkscape

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 29, 2019, at 20:14, yiming roberts-lo wrote:

> I went to install Inkscape and got the following message: 
> 
> py27-cython has the following notes:
>     To make the Python 2.7 version of Cython the one that is run when you
>     execute the commands without a version suffix, e.g. 'cython', run:
>     
>     port select --set cython cython27
>   python27 has the following notes:
>     To make this the default Python or Python 2 (i.e., the version run by the
>     'python' or 'python2' commands), run one or both of:
>     
>         sudo port select --set python python27
>         sudo port select --set python2 python27
>   python37 has the following notes:
>     To make this the default Python or Python 3 (i.e., the version run by the
>     'python' or 'python3' commands), run one or both of:
>     
>         sudo port select --set python python37
>         sudo port select --set python3 python37
> 
> I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to choose?

If would like to be able to type "python" on the command line and have that use a particular version of MacPorts python, as opposed to whatever version of python Apple ships with macOS, then you can run the appropriate "port select python ..." command. Similarly, if you would like to be able to run "cython" and have that be a particular version of MacPorts cython, run the appropriate port select command.

Since you mentioned that this happened when you installed Inkscape, I suspect that you do not care about running "python" or "cython" on the command line at this time, so the notes are irrelevant to you and you can ignore them.