[ckan-dev] Installing on OSX

Fri Mar 9 17:03:13 UTC 2012

Hi Sheldon,
I run a CKAN install-from-source on OS X, and my XCode is far from up to
date! Though you're right I had to break the rules and ignore a lot of
those instructions. I used *brew install **[name]* quite a lot in the place
of apt-get; I don't remember build-essential being important.
I'm of limited use though because it's been very many months since I set it
up. Sean recently started a new OS X install and he's documented his steps
here: http://wiki.ckan.org/Install
Hopefully that'll be of some help to you :-)
Tom

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Sheldon Rampton
<sheldon at sheldonrampton.com>wrote:

> I'm could use some help installing CKAN from source on my Macbook. I've
> run into several issues so far attempting the installation. Here are some
> of the issues I've encountered:
>
> (1) The CKAN instructions for installing from source specify that a number
> of packages need to be installed, one of which is "build-essential,"
> described as "Tools for building source code (or up-to-date Xcode on Mac)."
> I have Xcode version 3.2.4 installed on my Macbook Pro, but the latest
> version of Xcode is 4.1, and I can't install that without first upgrading
> my operating system from OSX 10.6 to OSX 10.7 (Lion). I've been holding off
> on upgrading my laptop to Lion because once I do, my personal accounting
> software (Quicken) will stop working, and there is no available upgrade.
>
> (2) The CKAN installation instructions require me to enter a number of
> apt-get commands, but the apt-get command is not available from the
> command-line in OSX. There are apparently three systems that people use for
> installing Unix/Linux software on Macs: MacPorts (formerly known as Darwin
> Ports), Homebrew, and Fink. Fink is apparently the only one of the three
> that installs binary packages like apt-get, and Fink is out of date and
> doesn't have a lot of current modules. I've been advised that between
> Homebrew is easier than MacPorts, but today after installing it and running
> its "brew outdated" command I got an error message that says, "Error: No
> such file or directory - /usr/local/Cellar."
>
> Can someone help me with this?
>
>
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