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I've been using MacPorts for several years to provide several command line packages that I also use on Linux systems. But often times when I go to use these, I encounter a couple of issues. Here's how I'm currently resolving these two issues.

 

I often can't find the MacPorts package in my path

My solution: Update the default PATH environmental variable on my mac. 

Code Block
themeEmacs
languagebash
titlesudo vi /etc/paths
linenumberstrue
/opt/local/bin 
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/opt/local/sbin
/usr/sbin
/sbin 

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