MacPorts bash on Big Sur as default shell

[Mike Summers]

Thanks Rainer, that was exactly the case.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 7:02 AM Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> On 10/02/2021 22.35, Mike Summers via macports-users wrote:
> > I'm not able to get MacPorts bash working in Terminal as the default
> shell.
> >
> > This is fresh install of Big Sur 11.2 on a new machine, fresh install of
> > MacPorts. Only bash and bash-autocomplete are installed
> >
> > Setting the shell in either the Terminal preferences or for my user to
> > /opt/local/bin/bash always leaves me in /bin/bash
>
> Make sure you use the correct command to lauch in the Terminal preferences.
> See here for the details:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/bash-completion#Terminal.app
>
> > The "best" workaround so far is to start in zsh which has the PATH set
> correctly
> > and exec bash from there.
>
> The MacPorts installer only added PATH to the login shell of your user
> account.
> For zsh, you can find the addition the .zprofile file in your home
> directory.
>
> If you want to use a different shell, you need to make sure to configure
> PATH
> for that shell. For bash that means you need to configure it in your
> .bash_profile accordingly.
>
>
> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.shell.html#installing.shell.postflight
>
> > My old machine where has been through many upgrades including Big Sur
> "just works",
> >
> > I've run out of ideas, I'd appreciate pointers.
>
> Those older machines may already have the PATH settings in .bash_profile,
> because you most probably installed MacPorts while bash was the login
> shell.
>
> Rainer
>
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