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Migrate from Macport to Homebrew

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Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn
Kobkrit Viriyayudhakorn
CEO, iApp Technology

Why?

  1. Macport is old, and significantly slow than homebrew.
  2. Homebrew is safer.

How?
First, Uninstall all programs installed by Macport.

sudo port -fp uninstall installed

Then remove all Macport’s application files,

sudo rm -rf \
/opt/local \
/Applications/DarwinPorts \
/Applications/MacPorts \
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
/Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
/Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
/Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
/Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
~/.macports

Install brew,

ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"