Xpn version 1.2.6 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Saturday the 7th of November, 2009

    version 1.2.6

      View the most recent changes for the xpn port at: xpn.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for xpn.
      The raw portfile for xpn 1.2.6 is located here:
      http://xpn.darwinports.com/dports/news/xpn/Portfile
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      The xpn Portfile 51955 2009-06-07 10:04:10Z arthurk macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: xpn
      Version: 1.2.6
      Category: news
      Description: Graphical newsreader written in PyGtk.
      Long Description: XPN (X Python Newsreader) is a news client written in Python and based on the GTK+ library. It offers a good MIME support, scoring system, filtered views, random tag-lines, external editor support, one-key navigation, ROT13, Face and X-Face headers decoding, spoiler char and many more.
      Maintainers: nomaintainer
      Platform: darwin
      Homepage: http://xpn.altervista.org/
      Master Sites: ${homepage}codice
      Checksums: md5 6b77345290a27406e411ea0ffa54780f sha1 929a8e809121f3e286d5f36a76a0db5e2fa2875e rmd160 672bb8cd22d8e4d03b98cf34701451225f35a9b7
      depends_lib port:py25-gtk
      use_configure no
      universal_variant no
      build {}
      destroot {
      file copy ${worksrcpath} ${destroot}${prefix}/share
      file copy ${filespath}/xpn.sh ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/xpn
      system "chmod +x ${destroot}${prefix}/share/xpn-${version}"
      system "chmod -R og+rw ${destroot}${prefix}/share/xpn-${version}"
      system "chmod +x ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/xpn"
      }

      post-destroot {
      reinplace "s|__PREFIX__|${prefix}|g" ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/xpn
      reinplace "s|__VERSION__|${version}|g" ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/xpn
      }

      post-activate {
      ui_msg "------------------------------------------------------"
      ui_msg "XPN has been installed in ${prefix}/share/xpn-${version}"
      ui_msg "and can be launched by calling the script 'xpn'"
      ui_msg "that has been created in ${prefix}/bin"
      ui_msg "------------------------------------------------------"
      }

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

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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