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Reputation: 61

Setup Macports on an offline machine

I need to install dpkg for my mac and the easiest way I have seen for doing that is to install Macports. Unfortunately the machine I want to install it on is not connected to the internet.

Is there a way to download dpkg and its dependencies for macports and install the packages on the offline machine?

I have seen people mention to set it up on an online machine and move the whole macports folder, however the only machine I have online is running a different OSX version which could cause issues.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 784

Answers (1)

kheyse
kheyse

Reputation: 1919

You could try to download all sourcefiles using

sudo port fetch rdepof:dpkg

and then copy everything in (/opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/) to the offline machine and put it in the same folder there.

Then you should be able to build dpkg using

sudo port install -s dpkg

The -s option forces macports to build from source. (Prevent MacPorts from installing pre-built package?)

Upvotes: 2

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