How to upgrade MacPorts to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
This weekend I upgraded OS X from Lion to Mountain Lion. Documenting steps I had to do to get all my development environments working with MacPorts.
Steps:
- First installed the latest XCode via the Mac App Store
- Downloaded/Installed Mountain Lion
- Launched XCode one to so I could agree to license, etc.
- MacPorts also requires the XCode Command Line tools which are a separate install. Inside XCode preferences: “Instead, they can be installed optionally using the Components tab of the Downloads preferences panel as shown in” (source)
- Had to run “sudo xcodebuild -license” after getting “Error: org.macports.build for port libunwind-headers returned: command execution failed”. Run this, scroll down, type agree.
- sudo port selfupdate
- sudo port upgrade outdated
- Everything finished and worked properly except MongoDB. Currently there’s a bug and the easiest/best work around seems to be just manually installing the latest stable OS X version from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads and manually copying the binaries into /opt/local
Kenneth John Balgos said,
August 2, 2012 @ 12:43 am
This solves my problem installing apple-gcc4.2. Thanks!
Clemens said,
August 27, 2012 @ 10:26 am
You shouldn’t overwrite stuff in /opt/local with files not installed by MacPorts. First, this might not work correctly due to linking on OS X using absolute paths and second, MacPorts might fail to uninstall this correctly, leaving you with a cluttered or broken system.
Put the mongodb download somewhere else and prepend it’s path to your $PATH variable, or downgrade to boost 1.49 (http://trac.macports.org/ticket/35118 has more on that), which will allow you to install mongodb from MacPorts.
Phil Freo said,
September 19, 2012 @ 2:21 pm
@Clemens — good point. For upgrades I’m now putting the mongo binaries in /usr/bin/ instead.
Phil said,
November 2, 2012 @ 11:41 pm
Update: ‘sudo port install mongodb’ works now!