Books version 3.2.4 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Saturday the 21st of November, 2009

    version 3.2.4

      View the most recent changes for the books port at: books.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for books.
      The raw portfile for books 3.2.4 is located here:
      http://books.darwinports.com/dports/aqua/Books/Portfile
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      # -*- coding: utf-8; mode: tcl; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- vim:fenc=utf-8:ft=tcl:et:sw=4:ts=4:sts=4
      The books Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: Books
      Version: 3.2.4
      Category: aqua
      #license MIT
      Maintainers: snc
      Description: Books provides a virtual card catalog for your personal library.

      Long Description: Books stores, sorts, and searches a virtual card catalog for a personal library. It makes it simple to enter new books, edit the information of older books, and sort the books by attributes such as title and author. Books also includes built-in searching for quick book information retrieval, and XML support for importing and exporting collection information in HTML and XML.

      Platform: darwin
      Homepage: http://books.aetherial.net/
      Master Sites: ${homepage}downloads/
      distname ${name}_${version}
      use_bzip2 yes
      extract.suffix .tbz

      platform darwin 7 {
      pre-fetch {
      return -code error "\n
      ${name} ${version} will not install on less than OS X 10.4 and there isn't a
      a ${name} 2.x port contributed as yet to accomodate 10.3.9\n"
      }
      }

      Checksums: md5 66321a4a3ff617c045cde42f66b77404 sha1 33a5b2ca49203793e6fc6aa17eed97b68db40f6d rmd160 c2e6b35aa2b4d5f0b66abb2780deb1b715bd358d

      worksrcdir ${name}.app

      universal_variant no
      use_configure no
      build {}
      destroot {
      move ${worksrcpath} ${destroot}${applications_dir}
      }

      livecheck.type regex
      livecheck.url http://books.aetherial.net/wordpress/
      livecheck.regex "${name} (\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)*) \\(10\\.4\\+\\)"

    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/books
      % sudo port install books
      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 books
      ---> Verifying checksum for books
      ---> Extracting books
      ---> Configuring books
      ---> Building books with target all
      ---> Staging books into destroot
      ---> Installing books
    - 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 books with these commands:
      %  man books
      % apropos books
      % which books
      % locate books

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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