Phil Freo

How to upgrade MacPorts to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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This post is from 2012, so some of it may be out of date.

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  • sudo port upgrade outdated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