The MacPorts Wiki

Welcome to the MacPorts Wiki. Here you may learn about MacPorts usage, development, and support.

MacPorts Starting Points

• Home Page - The MacPorts home page
• ​Installing MacPorts in the Guide - Getting your Mac ready to use MacPorts
• UsingMacPortsQuickStart - Using MacPorts QuickStart Guide

MacPorts Support

• ProblemHotlist - Problems affecting many MacPorts users
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions (and frequently given answers)
• Migration - What to do when you switch to a new OS release or CPU architecture
• Problems with ports on specific releases of the Mac operating system
  • SequoiaProblems - macOS 15
  • SonomaProblems - macOS 14
  • VenturaProblems - macOS 13
  • MontereyProblems - macOS 12
  • LegacyProblems - older versions of macOS
• ​MacPorts Guide - Detailed help and support guide for MacPorts
  • ​Using MacPorts
  • ​Using Trac for tickets
• Tickets - Overview over open tickets
• MailingLists - Get help from a mailing list or archives
• SocialMedia - Community representation on social media
• Chat - Join the community in chat
• HOWTOs - Useful tips and tricks
• Mirrors - Sync with a closer server
• TracGuide - Trac Wiki Documentation

Desktop Environments

• GNOME - Installing GNOME with MacPorts
• KDE - Installing KDE 4 with MacPorts
  • Problems with KDE software on MacPorts
• Xfce - Installing Xfce with MacPorts

MacPorts Development

• GetMacPortsSource - Checking out MacPorts ports and base sources
• CommittersGuide - Information for committers
• BuildPhases - Brief documentation on port installation phases
• ​MacPorts Guide - Detailed help and support guide for MacPorts
  • ​Portfile development - Documentation for Portfile authors
  • ​Portfile reference - Reference for Portfile authors
  • ​MacPorts internals - Documentation of internal functionality
• PortfileRecipes - Portfile recipes for certain situations, with examples
• MacPortsFramework - Work on a Cocoa Framework for accessing MacPorts
• Universal Development - Help getting more ports build universal
• Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
• ReproducibleBuilds

MacPorts Meetings

• MacPorts Meeting 2019 - A meeting of fellow MacPorters (11 - 16th October 2019, Slovenia)
• MacPorts Meeting 2018 - A meeting of fellow MacPorters (10 - 14th March 2018, Slovenia)
• MacPorts Meeting 2016 - A meeting of fellow MacPorters (13 - 16th March 2016, Slovenia)