Linux之所以如此流行，其原因之一就是其方便的软件管理,如yum、apt-get等。而Mac下面常用的安装方式为通过dmg、pkg包进行安装，作为unix的分支的Mac OS下面有没有apt-get、yum一样方便的软件管理工具呢？答案是肯定的，这就是本便要介绍的macports ，其同BSD中的ports用法几乎一样。
其官方网站为：http://www.macports.org/install.php，这里提供有dmg安装、pkg安装和源码安装三种方式，dmg和pkg就不多说了，下载完成后，下一步下一步安装即可。目前的最新版本为2.1.2 。源码下载地址为： https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/ 。
源码安装具体步骤如下：
wget http://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.1.2.tar.gz tar zxvf MacPorts-2.1.2.tar.gz cd MacPorts-2.1.2 ./configure && make && sudo make install cd ../ rm -rf MacPorts-2.1.2*
其安装完成后，默认路径为/opt/local 。因些如果想直接使用该命令，需要通过设置$PATH生效。如下：
vim /etc/profile export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH export PATH=/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
MacPorts使用
更新ports tree和MacPorts版本，强烈推荐第一次运行的时候使用-v参数，显示详细的更新过程。
sudo port -v selfupdate
搜索索引中的软件
port search name
安装新软件
sudo port install name
卸载软件
sudo port uninstall name
查看有更新的软件以及版本
port outdated
升级可以更新的软件
sudo port upgrade outdated
<span style="white-space:nowrap;">以wget的安装为例，如下：</span>
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macmatoMacBook-Pro:bin yang$ sudo port -v selfupdate
Password:
---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 69 bytes 30.00 bytes/sec
total size is 3543040 speedup is 33743.24
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 76 bytes 24.89 bytes/sec
total size is 512 speedup is 4.57
MacPorts base version 2.1.2 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.1.2 downloaded.
---> Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 70 bytes 23.56 bytes/sec
total size is 54691840 speedup is 515960.75
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 77 bytes 25.11 bytes/sec
total size is 512 speedup is 4.53
Creating port index in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports
Total number of ports parsed: 0
Ports successfully parsed: 0
Ports failed: 0
Up-to-date ports skipped: 15923
---> MacPorts base is already the latest version
The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
port upgrade outdated
macmatoMacBook-Pro:bin yang$ port search wget
gwget @1.0.4 (gnome, net)
Gwget is a Download Manager for Gnome 2. It uses wget as a backend.
wget @1.14 (net, www)
internet file retriever
wgetpro @0.1.3 (net, www)
advanced internet file retriever
wput @0.6.2 (net)
wput is like wget but is for uploading files to ftp-servers
Found 4 ports.
macmatoMacBook-Pro:bin yang$ sudo port install wget
---> Computing dependencies for wget
---> Dependencies to be installed: gettext expat libiconv ncurses gnutls libgcrypt libgpg-error libtasn1 lzo2 readline libidn
---> Fetching archive for expat
---> Attempting to fetch expat-2.1.0_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/expat
---> Attempting to fetch expat-2.1.0_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/expat
---> Installing expat @2.1.0_0
---> Activating expat @2.1.0_0
---> Cleaning expat
---> Fetching archive for libiconv
---> Attempting to fetch libiconv-1.14_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/libiconv
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<span style="white-space:nowrap;">Eclipse的插件需要subclipse需要JavaHL，下面通过MacPorts来安装</span>
sudo port install subversion-javahlbindings
注：MacPorts的安装需要xcode的支持，xcode for mac os x 10.6.5的下载地址 。