On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:33, Peter Hindrichs wrote:

On 11-Feb-08, at 5:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Feb 11, 2008, at 16:07, Peter Hindrichs wrote:

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I have followed all the recommendations in getting ready to use ports. I have Xtools 3.0, X11, (with the latest version 2.1.3) and downloaded Macports 1.6.0. I have also read that there is an issue with 1.6.0 in setting up the .profile, my question is that I don't know where to go from here, I clearly don't have the right path setup, and I am not sure how to do that. Here is what I get if I input "env"

Freedom:/ peterhin$ env MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11/man TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal TERM=xterm-color SHELL=/bin/bash TMPDIR=/var/folders/Sd/SdnvDsNAHdqx7M41XmVmb++++TI/-Tmp-/ Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-OeUcxx/Render TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=237 USER=peterhin COMMAND_MODE=unix2003 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/launch-FkaAJd/Listeners __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin PWD=/ LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHLVL=1 HOME=/Users/peterhin LOGNAME=peterhin DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-VZvhsj/:0 SECURITYSESSIONID=b0f090 _=/usr/bin/env OLDPWD=/Users/peterhin

If someone would be so kind as to give me a little time and explanation how I do this, and or direct me to some basic Unix file changing info I would be very appreciative.

See the Guide:

http://guide.macports.org/#installing.shell

Or my recent message to this list:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2008-February/ 008893.html

Yes I have read all that, my question is more basic, do I just say type "sudo pico" and then add that line "PATH=/opt/local/bin:/ opt/local/sbin:$PATH"

and save.? I am trying this terminal approach to try and learn a new environment and to keep my retired brain from atrophying. I hope this is not a problem for you.?

Sure, if you like the pico editor, you can use that, though you'll have to tell pico which file to edit, which is either ~/.bash_profile if you have that, or ~/.profile if you have that, or if you don't have either one then it doesn't matter which you create. There's also no need for "sudo" since you don't need superuser access to edit your own terminal settings. So for example you could type "pico ~/.bash_profile" I prefer the TextWrangler editor, which is a normal Mac app available from http://www.barebones.com/ . It's free and includes the "edit" command so you just type e.g. "edit ~/.bash_profile" and it opens that file into the editor.