MacPorts for Mac
Install open-source software on Darwin OSes (was DarwinPorts).
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MacPorts overview
MacPorts provides an easy way to install various open-source software products on macOS. MacPorts manages the dependencies for you and makes it easy to later update or uninstall software too. MacPorts provides binary archives of much of the software available in its collection so that you can install software quickly without having to compile it yourself.
Note: The screenshot shown in this listing comes from Pallet, a separate graphical user interface available here.
What’s new in version 2.11.2
- Installing MacPorts from source now uses its own copy of install(1) on systems that support APFS. As well as improving performance, this also seems to work around an apparent bug in the macOS filesystem cache that could cause errors during or right after selfupdate.
- The value of $workpath is no longer fully normalized, so that it and other options based on it (such as $destroot) will remain consistent before and after the path is created.
MacPorts for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.11.2
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Jul 15 2025
Version: 2.11.1
"If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:"
sudo port selfupdate
Oct 3 2018
Version: 2.5.4
I'm mainly a homebrewer, but for the occasional other package, I need MacPorts, and I like it a lot. Though the weird thing is that the latest update 2.5.4 doesn't support Xcode 10 on High Sierra; to use MacPorts 2.5.4 with Xcode 10, you need to be on Mojave.
May 26 2018
Version: 2.4.4
After years of using and then now struggling with Homebrew, I've finally come home with MacPorts. Markedly better, more offerings that cater to user needs and wants (much more so than just being developer-centric like 'Brew). Our team has even started contributing to MacPorts and are finding development really nice with TCL and the dev community's also less hostile.
May 25 2018
Version: 2.4.4
Version 2.4.4 el capitan gets stuck at verifying. Any ideas?
Aug 19 2015
Version: 2.3.3
Anyone get Pallet to work with MacPorts on OS X v. 10.10.5? I keep getting an error about MacPorts_Framework. I'm a newbie to MacPorts and don't understand how to solve the issue when reading through the user wiki. Somebody posted a bunch of diff patches for download that are supposed to address the problem. How are these applied? It looks like this problem with Pallet has been around for over a year... that is pretty sad considering that adding a GUI (which Pallet does) is likely the first thing a newbie (like me) would do to make managing and viewing packages easier.