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I don’t have root on my desktop Mac at $WORK, even though I have root on about 1200 production systems. sigh

So, I asked my Mac administrator to install the XCode development tools. Once that was done, all I needed to was the following.

• Download the MacPort.tar.bz source distribution: http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.6.0/MacPorts-1.6.0.tar.bz2

• Note: For Leopard, one needs to apply the patch from http://trac.macports.org/changeset/32105

• Run the following:

  
    tar -jxf MacPorts-1.6.0.tar.bz2 && cd MacPorts-1.6.0
  
    PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin ./configure \
    --prefix=$HOME/macports \
    --with-install-user=`id -un` \
    --with-install-group=`id -gn` \
    --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include \
    --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
    --with-tclpackage=$HOME/macports/share/macports/Tcl
  
    make
    make install
  
  

• Add something like the following to your Mac’s .bashrc>

  
    export PATH=$HOME/macports/bin:$HOME/macports/sbin
    export MANPATH=$HOME/macports/share/man:$MANPATH
    export PERL5LIB=$HOME/macports/lib/perl5/5.8.8:$HOME/macports/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8:$PERL5LIB
  

• Run a selfupdate: port selfupdate
• Now you do can do cool things like learn Scheme over lunch with: port search scheme; port install mzscheme

I’ve added this to the MacPorts wiki