<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Susan Llunas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bookbinder@preserveyourtreasures.com" target="_blank">bookbinder@preserveyourtreasures.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We have tried to download Ghostscript to our OSX Lion, we choose the MacPorts, Ghostscript 9.05 listed, we click download, and that box pops up with a box saying we need to download MacPorts. We end up in a do-loop with no download.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Where are you doing this? Because that's not how MacPorts works.</div><div><br></div><div>First, you make sure Xcode is installed. While some ports with suitable licenses and default variants on some Mac platforms are available as binary archives, much of the time ports must be built from source. This requires a full Xcode installation (not the minimal one Apple recently came up with) because some ports use xcodebuild.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You then install MacPorts ( <a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts</a> ); this install and configures the MacPorts framework and does an initial download of the ports tree, which is a repository of recipes. You would then open a new Terminal window and type "sudo port install ghostscript" to install the ghostscript port (and its dependencies).</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are some GUI wrappers, none of which is fully functional at the moment as I understand it (one is obsolete and nonfunctional on Lion, the others are still in development/incomplete).</div></div><div>
<br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms<br>
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