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The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD 3-Clause License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute, without splitting them into “stable” Vs. “unstable” branches, targeting mainly the current OS X release (OS X 10.10 Yosemite) and the immediately previous two (OS X 10.9 Mavericks and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion). There are currently 20347 ports in our tree, distributed among 84 different categories, and more are being added on a regular basis.

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Latest MacPorts release: 2.3.3

Getting involved



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