Snownews version 1.5.11 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Friday the 3rd of September, 2010

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    version 1.5.11

      View the most recent changes for the snownews port at: snownews.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for snownews.
      The raw portfile for snownews 1.5.11 is located here:
      http://snownews.darwinports.com/dports/net/snownews/Portfile
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      The snownews Portfile 59973 2009-10-28 07:05:26Z pguyot kallisys.net $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: snownews
      Version: 1.5.11
      Description: Text mode RSS newsreader for Linux and Unix.
      Long Description: Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS 1.0 feeds that comply with the W3C RDF specification and also supports Radio Userland's RSS 0.91 and 2.0 versions.
      Platform: darwin
      Category: net www
      Maintainers: nomaintainer
      Homepage: http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/
      Master Sites: ${homepage}/download/
      Checksums: md5 550e32d9c4a99608840fb09600fbe74d sha1 64ed1c648ed50cada294bc503e100496a7dd9f09 rmd160 ccb1e021ad25ef2f4f420fe44f1c81833f97ad88
      depends_lib port:libxml2 port:gettext port:p5-xml-libxml

      post-extract {
      # We want to use perl from MacPorts.
      reinplace s|/usr/bin/perl|${prefix}/bin/perl| ${worksrcpath}/opml2snow
      }
      build.args EXTRA_CFLAGS="-I${prefix}/include" EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L${prefix}/lib -lintl" PREFIX=${prefix}
      destroot.args PREFIX=${prefix}

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

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