Fish version 1.23.1 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Saturday the 21st of November, 2009

    version 1.23.1

      View the most recent changes for the fish port at: fish.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for fish.
      The raw portfile for fish 1.23.1 is located here:
      http://fish.darwinports.com/dports/shells/fish/Portfile
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      The fish Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: fish
      Version: 1.23.1
      Category: shells
      Platform: darwin
      Maintainers: eridius openmaintainer
      Description: user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems
      Long Description: fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems like Darwin.

      Homepage: http://www.fishshell.org/
      Master Sites: http://www.fishshell.org/files/${version}/
      Checksums: md5 ead6b7c6cdb21f35a3d4aa1d5fa596f1 sha1 3a6a5d0cfff348e5f9b1e7cd771865fd1dcd802e rmd160 820b7a57f31b98a6faf1520b356a06422891e787
      use_bzip2 yes

      livecheck.type regex
      livecheck.regex fish-(.*?).tar.bz2

      depends_build bin:doxygen:doxygen
      depends_lib lib:libiconv:libiconv lib:libncurses:ncurses lib:libintl:gettext

      configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --without-xsel

      platform darwin {
      # there's something wonky about the libiconv headers installed by
      # macports that prevents autoconf from detecting libiconv, so i
      # have to fake it. See
      # <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.fish.user/1217>
      # for details.
      patchfiles-append patch-configure.ac.diff
      use_autoconf yes
      post-configure {
      reinplace "s|LDFLAGS = |LDFLAGS= -liconv |g" "${worksrcpath}/Makefile"
      }
      }

      Variant: xsel description "enable xsel support, only appropriate for use within X11" {
      configure.args-delete --without-xsel
      }

    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/fish
      % sudo port install fish
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching fish
      ---> Verifying checksum for fish
      ---> Extracting fish
      ---> Configuring fish
      ---> Building fish with target all
      ---> Staging fish into destroot
      ---> Installing fish
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using fish with these commands:
      %  man fish
      % apropos fish
      % which fish
      % locate fish

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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