Introduction to MacPorts

The MacPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Mac OS X operating system.

There are currently about completed and usable ports, with more being added on a regular basis. You can track recently added ports by subscribing to the macports-changes mailing list.

For more information on obtaining and installing MacPorts, please see the Get MacPorts section of this site. Also be sure to check out the documentation, and if you have questions or run into problems, you can get help at our help section. The MacPorts Wiki is also a good resource for general and miscellaneous help, specially the ongoing FAQ effort.

Bug reports, feature requests, and new ports should be submitted as new tickets into our Trac system. Please consult the documentation to improve the processing of your ticket(s).

For information on becoming an official member of the MacPorts project with write access to our subversion repository, please consult the relevant documentation detailing our membership requirements and resulting duties & benefits from holding a MacPorts account.

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