Yup, there is so much that I do not understand. The discussion about directories is relevant to me, as I wish to understand and I must decide which installation I should keep.
Thanks for your help. -----Original Message----- From: Sterling Smith <[email protected]> To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:25 Subject: Re: macports instal pkg - alert msg A, Perhaps you don't understand what macports is. It is a way of installing various applications (or libraries), with the correct understanding and installation of the dependencies for that application. The usual way of installing a given application is to find out its portname > port search mypaint MyPaint @1.1.0_1 (graphics) a fast and easy graphics application for digital painters Then find out if you need a particular variant >port variants MyPaint MyPaint has the variants: universal: Build for multiple architectures No unusual variants for MyPaint, so proceed with installation. >sudo port install MyPaint After that installs successfully, start a new terminal session so that your path is up to date. Then to find the command that you need to run on the command line, look at the output of >port contents MyPaint | grep bin or >port contents MyPaint | grep -i .app If there is a newer version of MyPaint than 1.1.0, then file a bug report requesting an update.[1,2] The discussion about using different directories (/opt/local, etc.) is not relevant unless you are trying to create the .pkg to be redistributed to others. Hope that helps, Sterling [1] http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets.creating [2] https://trac.macports.org/newticket On Oct 11, 2013, at 6:46AM, [email protected] wrote: > Thanks. > > What is normal to you? > > I don't recall using a prefix, but ran both installers from their default location which happened to be /opt/local, > also I did not choose /Applications/MacPorts as applications_dir to create > the package in the first place. > Both installs were left at default setting. > > It seems I now have a decision to make and some files to delete. > > I don't want to distribute, but there is no Mac pkg available for this (latest) version of mypaint. As the earlier version has serious > functional deficits (no pressure sensitivity) I am glad to make it available. However, I am not sure how or where to do this. I have > posted a note on a mypaint forum. Perhaps someone will tell me. > > Thanks again to you, all. > > -A > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rainer Müller <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:32 > Subject: Re: Fwd: macports instal pkg - alert msg > > On 2013-10-11 12:22, [email protected] > wrote: > > I have completed first 'successful' MacPorts instal, but something seems > > not to be quite right. > > > > What have I done, and how do I put it right? > > > > Following the MacPorts guide, I ran (and I am not sure I needed to do > > this); sudo port pkg mypaint > > Creating a pkg is only necessary if you want to redistribute this > package. Otherwise just use a normal installation: > > sudo port install mypaint > > > In case you really want to redistribute this package, you should not use > /opt/local as prefix and /Applications/MacPorts as applications_dir to > create the package in the first place. Please choose a different prefix > to avoid conflicts. > > > [...] > > I seem to have a duplicate tree structure within destroot. Is this as it > > should be? I now have; > > HD/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports. . . > > /MyPaint/work/destroot/opt/ . . (see above) > > and; > > HD/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports. . . > > /MyPaint/work/destroot/Applications/MacPorts/MyPaint.app > > This looks correct. > > > A further MyPaint.app is located. HD/Applications/MacPorts/MyPaint.pp > > This is the installed version from the pkg installer. > > > Previously, I had installed an earlier release of MyPaint using a pkg > > installer and this located the directories (bin, include, lib, & share) > > listed above in destroot/ directly in HD/opt/ directory. > > Then it was probably not created by a default MacPorts installation, > which uses /opt/local. > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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