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Pvr4me: MacPorts version

2013-02-19T19:30:19Z

MacPorts version

Pvr4me: Remove ancient instructions/problems, mention GraphViz install

2013-02-19T19:19:32Z

Remove ancient instructions/problems, mention GraphViz install

Kulath: moved Mac OS X MacPorts to Mac OS X:Build from source:MacPorts: Structure the Mac OS pages

2012-02-24T11:01:46Z

moved Mac OS X MacPorts to Mac OS X:Build from source:MacPorts: Structure the Mac OS pages

Kulath: Updates for problems with Gramps on some OS/architectures

2010-04-07T17:46:25Z

Updates for problems with Gramps on some OS/architectures

Richardsmith: Removed all the out-dated instructions and wrote current ones that work

2009-07-29T06:17:23Z

Removed all the out-dated instructions and wrote current ones that work

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Dm1407: /* Starting Gramps using X11 */ Category:Developers/Packaging

2009-06-12T05:24:55Z

‎Starting Gramps using X11: Category:Developers/Packaging

Emrys: /* Glitches */ more on copy-and-paste

2009-06-09T14:33:04Z

‎Glitches: more on copy-and-paste

Emrys: /* Glitches */ xquartz 2.3.3.2

2009-06-09T14:20:42Z

‎Glitches: xquartz 2.3.3.2

Dm1407: {{languages}}

2009-06-08T05:45:39Z

Emrys: /* Glitches */

2009-05-18T13:11:16Z

‎Glitches

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 ==Installing Gramps using MacPorts==
 # Download and install the latest Xcode tools from http://developer.apple.com/technology/Xcode.html
 # Download and install Macports from http://www.macports.org/install.php
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   sudo port install gramps
 If you are running a recent version of OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion, at this point), much of the support software is pre-compiled and will install as quickly as it is downloaded.
 ==Running Gramps==

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-== Installing gramps for X11 using MacPorts ==
+==Installing Gramps using MacPorts==
-# Install Mac OS X Leopard and update to the latest version.  (X11 will be installed by default on Leopard - older OSes may require it to be manually installed.)
 # Download and install the latest Xcode tools from http://developer.apple.com/technology/Xcode.html
 # Download and install Macports from http://www.macports.org/install.php
 # Open Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities and enter these commands:
-  sudo port -v selfupdate
+  sudo port selfupdate
   sudo port install gramps
-{{man note| Time for several cups of coffee! |The step 'sudo port install gramps' on a completely fresh installation of MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.4.11 iMac iSight (2.1 GHx PowerPC G5) took 12 hours 53 minutes.}}
+If you are running a recent version of OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion or Mountain Lion, at this point), much of the support software is pre-compiled and will install as quickly as it is downloaded.
-# After the last command, wait 5 minutes to be sure that launchctl has finished
+==Running Gramps==
-# When you want to run GRAMPS, enter these commands
- open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app
+Use Terminal to start gramps:
   gramps
-There are a number of issues, some of which are probably specific to particular versions of Mac OS X::
+==GraphViz==
-# If you had a previous installation of MacPorts and Gramps, and you want to start again from scratch, then simply deleting the folder /opt is not enough to uninstall MacPorts. The correct instructions for doing so are at [[http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html MacPorts Guide: uninstalling]]. In particular, you have to rename/move aside /Applications/MacPorts when you do a fresh install.
+You may wish to install GraphViz to handle some of the graphical reports that Gramps can produce.  MacPorts can provide you with either graphical or command-line based versions of either a 'stable' or 'development' release of GraphViz.  'graphviz-gui' is recommended unless you know that you have a need for the development version.  Install with:
-# libproxy 0.4.0 does not build properly on Tiger see [[http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24127 MacPorts ticket 24127]]. Reverting to the Portfile for 0.3.0 works.
-# The WriteCD plugin is unavailable. This relies on GNOME and has not been made to work on OS X.
-# The spelling checker may or may not work. gnome-python-extras needs to be build after gtkspell (which may not happen in an entirely automated build). In addition, there appear to be some other problems which affect whether it works or not. See [[http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24266 MacPorts ticket 24266]].
-# The latest version of MacPorts Gramps is based on Python 2.6, but this does not build _bsddb correctly on some OS/architecture combinations. See [[http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23768 MacPorts ticket 23768]] and [[http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24310 MacPorts ticket 24310]].
-# A warning message is produced when running Gramps: "Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0"." According to the MacPorts FAQ [[http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#randr]] "It's harmless and you should ignore it".
-# The Geographic View is not available because webkit-gtk does not build under MacPorts [[http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23464 MacPorts ticket 23464]] and  [[http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36088 webkitgtk bug]]).
-# When going into the file chooser (for example on export or import or plugin manager, you may get the warning: "GtkWarning: Unable to find default local directory monitor type". This doesn't seem to be very serious, and seems to be a "more general gtk issue". See [[http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnubg@.../msg03464.html]].
-If you start gramps from the xterm window, don't forget to follow the instructions about setting paths for the X11 environment in [[http://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts#OptionsfortheMacPortsshellandX11environment MacPorts wiki: Installing MacPorts]].
+==Issues==

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 # Open Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities and enter these commands:
   sudo port -v selfupdate
   sudo port install gramps
   sudo port install python_select
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   sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
   sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
-# Now wait 5 minutes to be sure that launchctl has finished
 # When you want to run GRAMPS, enter these commands
   open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app
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   open-x11 gramps
 [[Category:Developers/Packaging]]

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	==Starting Gramps using X11==		==Starting Gramps using X11==
	Once you have successfully installed gramps using MacPorts, you will need to make a note of where the executable is. You can do this in your terminal, by typing "which gramps" (no quotes, of course). You should make a note of this and then start X11 from the Applications folder (in my case from within the Utilities folder). Once you have an X terminal you can type the command, in my case "/opt/local/bin/gramps". If /opt/local/bin is in the PATH for X11, then you should just be able to type "gramps".		Once you have successfully installed gramps using MacPorts, you will need to make a note of where the executable is. You can do this in your terminal, by typing "which gramps" (no quotes, of course). You should make a note of this and then start X11 from the Applications folder (in my case from within the Utilities folder). Once you have an X terminal you can type the command, in my case "/opt/local/bin/gramps". If /opt/local/bin is in the PATH for X11, then you should just be able to type "gramps".
		+
		+	[[Category:Developers/Packaging]]

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 == Glitches ==
-There are some problems. An update of Mac OS X on about 15 May 2009 changed gramps's behaviour in several ways, too. Presumably, these changes are the results of fixing bugs in the Apple X11 implementation. After 15 May 2009, this was "XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)", running on Mac OS X 10.5.7; this program annoyingly broke copy-and-paste. Now, on 9 Jun 2009, without any action on my part, my iMac changed to "XQuartz 2.3.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple42)". That added more tabs to the X11 preferences screen. The X11 - Preferences - Pasteboard" screen selects various functionality in the convoluted copy-and-paste system used for running X11 linux applications on Mac OS. I ticked all 5 boxes on that screen and copy and paste worked again between Gramps and other Mac applications.
+There are some problems. An update of Mac OS X on about 15 May 2009 changed gramps's behaviour in several ways, too. Presumably, these changes are the results of fixing bugs in the Apple X11 implementation. After 15 May 2009, this was "XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)", running on Mac OS X 10.5.7; this program annoyingly broke copy-and-paste. Now, on 9 Jun 2009, without any action on my part, my iMac changed to "XQuartz 2.3.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple42)". That added more tabs to the X11 preferences screen. The new "X11 - Preferences - Pasteboard" screen selects various functionality in the convoluted copy-and-paste system used for running X11 linux applications on Mac OS. I ticked all boxes on that screen ''except'' "Update Pasteboard immediately when new text is selected" and copy and paste worked again between Gramps and other Mac applications.
 * Following the 15 May 2009 update, the font used in the gramps window is too large and too bold for convenience.

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 == Glitches ==
-There are some problems. An update of Mac OS X on about 15 May 2009 changed gramps's behaviour in several ways, too. Presumably, these changes are the results of fixing bugs in the Apple X11 implementation. After 15 May 2009, this was "XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)", running on Mac OS X 10.5.7.
+There are some problems. An update of Mac OS X on about 15 May 2009 changed gramps's behaviour in several ways, too. Presumably, these changes are the results of fixing bugs in the Apple X11 implementation. After 15 May 2009, this was "XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)", running on Mac OS X 10.5.7; this program annoyingly broke copy-and-paste. Now, on 9 Jun 2009, without any action on my part, my iMac changed to "XQuartz 2.3.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple42)". That added more tabs to the X11 preferences screen. The X11 - Preferences - Pasteboard" screen selects various functionality in the convoluted copy-and-paste system used for running X11 linux applications on Mac OS. I ticked all 5 boxes on that screen and copy and paste worked again between Gramps and other Mac applications.
 * Following the 15 May 2009 update, the font used in the gramps window is too large and too bold for convenience.
-* Gramps on Mac uses ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v for cut, copy, paste. The standard for mac programs, including X11 programs, is cmd-x, cmd-c, cmd-v. Before the 15 May 2009 update, ctrl-click or right-click would allow a paste into gramps. After the 15 May 2009 update, right-click now allows paste into gramps, but the item pasted is only one copied from within gramps. For example, it is no longer possible to copy a cell from an openoffice spreadsheet and paste it into gramps in any way.
+* Gramps on Mac uses ctrl-x, ctrl-c, ctrl-v for cut, copy, paste. The standard for mac programs, including X11 programs, is cmd-x, cmd-c, cmd-v. To make paste work between other mac programs and gramps, set the X11 pasteboard preferences as described above
-* Some text pasted in - notably the contents of a cell from an Openoffice spreadsheet, but possibly other as well - has a <LF> character at the end, unexpectedly. (This can no longer be demonstrated after the 15 May 2009 update).
+* Before 15 May 2009, Some text pasted in - notably the contents of a cell from an Openoffice spreadsheet, but possibly other as well - had an <LF> character at the end, unexpectedly. After 9 Jun 2009, pasting text from openoffice to gramps works fine, with no spurious <LF>, but it's no longer possible to <copy> an openoffice spreadsheet cell and <paste> it direct into gramps. Instead, you have to first <copy> the cell in openoffice, then use openoffice - edit - paste-special - to paste the text (not the formula) into another openoffice cell. Then click on that cell and the text pops up in the openoffice edit box. Select that text and you can <copy> it in openoffice. Then <paste> it in Gramps, and that works. (Pity, pasting the cell used to work, except for the LF!)
 * Double clicking an image in the media reference editor doen't bring up an external viewer to show the picture full size. In fact, there seems to be no way to do this from within gramps on Mac.
-* Before the 15 May 2009 update: Little popup yellow help notices notices which are supposed to appear when you hover over a button do appear, but do so even when the gramps window isn't in focus and there's a window from another application covering it up. After the 15 May 2009 update, this seems to be fixed, and popup notices only appear when the gramps window is in focus.
+* Switching to another user, using the OS X fast user switching feature, gramps can mess up the display on returning to the original user. The cure is to quit gramps and restart it.
-* Switching to another user, using the OS X fast user switching feature, gramps can mess up the display on returning to the orignal user. The cure is to quit gramps and restart it.
 * It is not possible to start Gramps by double clicking on a Mac OS icon, nor by double clicking on a Gramps database that is associated with the application. (It should be possible to create an installation that allows this, just as it is available for OpenOffice).
 * The PdfDoc.py plugin cannot be installed because ReportLab is not installed.
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 * 'Enter' or 'return' does not act as OK for closing windows (the button has to be pressed with the mouse). However Esc does work to exit from the window.
 * The browser and email links under the help menu do nothing.
 ==Starting Gramps using X11==
 Once you have successfully installed gramps using MacPorts, you will need to make a note of where the executable is. You can do this in your terminal, by typing "which gramps" (no quotes, of course). You should make a note of this and then start X11 from the Applications folder (in my case from within the Utilities folder). Once you have an X terminal you can type the command, in my case "/opt/local/bin/gramps". If /opt/local/bin is in the PATH for X11, then you should just be able to type "gramps".

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-[[Category:Documentation]][[Category:Developers/Packaging]]
+{{languages}}
 == Installing gramps for X11 using MacPorts ==
 This page has been updated with information gleaned from installing gramps 3.0.4.1. from Macports onto a brand new iMac with OS X 10.5.6 on 14 March 2009.
 === Starting ===
 ==== X11 ====
 The MacPorts information says that you have to install X11, either from an Apple disk or from an open source version. My iMac came pre-installed with X11 out of the Apple box, so that is probably the default nowadays. In that case, no action is needed.
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 ==== OpenOffice ====
 The advice from the [[Mac OS X]] page to install [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] first is sound. That should complete without any errors. Be aware that the running openoffice icon in the Mac dock doesn't do anything when clicked. It has to be ctrl-clicked to pop up a menu.
 ==== MacPorts ====
 [http://www.macports.org/ MacPorts] should now install successfully with a couple of clicks. I just clicked on the "leopard" link on the [http://www.macports.org/install.php install] page and it just worked.
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 After all that (it takes a couple of hours to download and install xCode) the "type make" test above should succeed.
-==== Gramps and the packages it depends on ====
+==== GRAMPS and the packages it depends on ====
+The following text here was from the original version of this page and was what I used to install GRAMPS. In fact, it's out of date. A current experience is shown on the discussion page of this article, and it would have been better for me to do that instead. We should re-hash this page to make more sense, but none of us quite has the courage to go ahead and do it!
-The following text here was from the orignal version of this page and was what I used to install gramps. In fact, it's out of date. A current experience is shown on the discussion page of this article, and it would have been better for me to do that instead. We should re-hash this page to make more sense, but none of us quite ahs the courage to go ahead and do it!
 ==== This is what used to happen ====