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 This guide is designed to help provide you with a quick start to using MacPorts. It will cover installing, updating, and removing open source software from your computer provided via the MacPorts infrastructure, in addition to some other important basics.
 
-It is important to understand that MacPorts is designed so that all software installed within MacPorts is installed to its own self-contained directory (`/opt/local`, by default). Software can be built into this directory without interfering with any Apple-provided services, or OS X in general, tested, and even packaged into an OS X-style disk image for deployment on other systems. Using guides such as [http://www.netmusician.org/wiki/index.php/Build_server_with_DarwinPorts this], MacPorts installed open source software can even be used to integrate with or replace Apple's installed versions of this same software without having to give up Apple's GUI controls.
+It is important to understand that MacPorts is designed so that all software installed within MacPorts is installed to its own self-contained directory (`/opt/local`, by default). Software can be built into this directory without interfering with any Apple-provided services or Mac OS X in general.
 
-This guide was written by [mailto:joe@macports.org Joe Auty] @ [http://www.netmusician.org NetMusician]
+This guide was originally written by [mailto:joe@macports.org Joe Auty] and published on [http://www.netmusician.org NetMusician].
 
 == Adding MacPorts to your Terminal's path ==
 
-You can interact with MacPorts either using the [http://www.codebykevin.com/portauthority.html Port Authority] GUI, or using the Terminal. If you choose to use the Terminal, the Terminal needs to know to look in your MacPorts directory (i.e. `/opt/local` if you are using the defaults) to find its utilities. If you installed MacPorts using the InstallingMacPorts page then you should be able to open a Terminal window and type:
+You can interact with MacPorts either using a [wiki:FAQ#gui GUI], or using the Terminal. If you choose to use the Terminal, the Terminal needs to know to look in your MacPorts directory (i.e. `/opt/local` if you are using the defaults) to find its utilities. If you installed MacPorts using the InstallingMacPorts page then you should be able to open a Terminal window and type:
 
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