Site, on your Mac operating system installation CDs/DVD, or in the Mac App Store. Using the latest available version that will run on your OS is highly recommended, except for Snow Leopard where the last free version, MacPorts will let you know if this is the case. (Optional) Apple's Xcode Developer Tools, when building some ports from source. Option(s) are selected at the time of Xcode's install ("UNIX Development", "System Tools", "Command Line Tools", or Users of Xcode 3 or earlier can install them by ensuring that the appropriate Or they can be installed from within Xcode back to version 4. Older versions are found at the Apple Developer site, It can be installed on recent OS versions by running this command in the Terminal: xcode-select -install
( Direct Link).įor some ports, your system might require installations of the following components:Īpple's Command Line Developer Tools, in case a port you're installing or one of its dependencies The public key to verify the detached GPG signatures can be found under the attachments section on jmr's wiki page. MacPorts installed and wish to upgrade to a newer release.Ĭhecksums for our packaged downloads are contained in the corresponding checksums file. The selfupdate target of the port(1) command, for users who already have.Git clone of the unpackaged sources, if you wish to follow MacPorts development.Tar.gz one for manual compilation, if you intend to customize your installation In source form as either a tar.bz2 package or a.Procedure that most users should follow after meeting the requirements listed MacPorts version 2.9.1 is available in various formats for download and installation (note, if you are upgrading to a new major release of macOS, see the migration info page): Install MacPorts for your version of the Mac operating system:.Install Apple's Command Line Developer Tools: xcode-select -install.(Since remedy was to drag to the desktop, then to the Applications folder, I thought that might make some difference, but it does not. The latest update installed correctly following the procedure in the Guide, exactly as it does when the disk image is downloaded to the desktop. But as an experiment, I just downloaded to the Downloads folder. Is there any chance you accidentally did this? The closest I can get to replicating this problem is as I described in Post #2 of this topic: dragging the entire, opened disk image rather than the Manager application to the Applications folder. I’ve already done it dozens of times on Mojave alone.
I think I can fairly say I have probably updated Manager on a Mac more than any other user in my role as forum moderator. My explanation to you is no different than the one I gave to This has to be something you’ve done on your Mac. Well, you are the second person in history to report this problem. I suggest downloading again and installing the latest version. If you create an alias of the bundle, it will be named Manager alias and look like this: When you drag it into the Applications folder, it looks like this:Īnd the software bundle that contains it (which is what you are actually dragging to the Applications folder) is also named just plain Manager.
(In macOS terminology, these are aliases, not shortcuts.) There is nothing in the entire Manager disc image named Manager App. One thing that caught my eye was your statement about seeing “Manager App” with what you called a “shortcut” arrow in your Applications folder. This is something you are doing (or have done) with your Mac. In neither case, if I install correctly, can I reproduce what you see. I have personally downloaded and updated twice since you posted your original message, one to 18.10.96 and again to 18.11.1.