osx snow leopard - Does anyone have a ready built FontForge package for OSX 10.6.8?

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2014-04
  • user249760

    Does anyone have a ready built FontForge package for OSX 10.6.8?

    I've been pulling my hair out trying to find a service that will allow me to install FontForge. Fink has broken links, MacPorts somehow can no longer find the package. When I did finally get FontForge to install, I could not find the application anywhere (no sign that it had arrived, ie no icon in my applications folder to double click). So I gies something when wrong.

    I'm hoping that someone else has succeeded where I have failed and has a package ready to go.

    Thanks. Connor.

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  • RCIX

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  • avstrallen

    Try

    sudo port -v selfupdate

    which should update the local portlist and give you verbose output so you can better see what's going on.

    sudo port -v list lua should show you the lua portfile if it is properly installed. If you can see it, try the install again.

    Hope that helps.

  • las3rjock

    I don't use MacPorts, so I'm speculating, but from skimming the MacPorts Guide, it seems that you might want to try issuing the command

    sudo port selfupdate

    and then try

    sudo port install lua

    again. I assume this is a continuation of your "Programming in Lua for the Mac?" question on Stack Overflow, so you might also want to look at micmoo's most recent comment on his MacPorts answer, although I think your PATH is configured correctly since sudo port installed seems to work.

  • Jack Chu

    I use Porticus which is a front end gui for MacPorts, you might want to give it a try. It makes installation and uninstallation a breeze.