Tag Archives: macports

Speed up Firefox!

My Firefox on Mac was getting pretty lethargic — almost a minute to spin up, and multiple seconds to just open a new tab. I installed the new beta of Google Chrome, and remembered how nice a speedy browser was. … Continue reading

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Macports fails to compile p5-perlmagick

If you need PerlMagick on a Mac, there was (and still is) a p5-perlmagick package. If you try to install that package now, you’ll find it doesn’t compile (!!). You don’t have to resort to compiling from source, though.

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Download Xcode 3.1.4 for Leopard

Apple’s developer website only links to the latest version of Xcode, which requires Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). If you’re still running Leopard (10.5), you need to go to this alternative developer website: http://connect.apple.com/ Log in with your ADC … Continue reading

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How to Convert Your Book’s Images to Kindle

Taking your painstakingly typeset book and shoving it through the kindle “conversion” meatgrinder was an exercise in wincing. Most of the images were corrupted, there was whitespace sprinkled randomly throughout the copy, and it was a general mess. Kindle supports … Continue reading

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Apache2, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X using MacPorts

1. Install MacPorts Follow the instructions here: http://www.macports.org/install.php. 2. Install apache2 sudo port install apache2 Note that the macports instructions suggest installing the launchctl script now, but we’ll do that after mysql and php are installed. 3. Install and configure … Continue reading

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How to set up native subversion (javahl) with Subclipse on Mac OS X

Note that this is for Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4.x). Install the javahl binding with MacPorts: sudo port install subversion +bash_completion sudo port install subversion-javahlbindings Run eclipse, and add this upgrade site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x Select the “JavaHL Adapter” and “Subclipse” modules and click … Continue reading

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Quick MacPorts Installation of Ruby on Rails

I finally got to walking through a great gentle introductory ALA article on Ruby on Rails. I wanted to run rails Demo to build my first project, but I got nastiness: $ rails -v /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:379:in `report_activate_error’: RubyGem version error: rake(0.7.3 … Continue reading

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Installing git with MacPorts

The Good: MacPorts makes git, the new source version control system hotness, available to Mac users. The Bad: MacPorts sometimes has attitude, and poops out trying to compile or install packages. The Ugly: MacPorts doesn’t tell you how to fix … Continue reading

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Automatic panoramas with hugin and autopano

I’ve only been using hugin for an hour now, and I’m really impressed. The mac binary doesn’t include the ability to automatically determine how images overlap, but it’s pretty easy to make that work, too. First download the hugin binary. … Continue reading

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Ant bash completion on Mac OS X

bash will do tab-completion for ant targets on Debian/Ubuntu boxes out-of-the-box. If you haven’t upgraded lately, you may need to: sudo apt-get install bash-completion On Mac OS X, it needs a bit of massaging. First install the macports version of … Continue reading

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