Orrery version 0.9.5 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Saturday the 7th of November, 2009

    version 0.9.5

      View the most recent changes for the orrery port at: orrery.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for orrery.
      The raw portfile for orrery 0.9.5 is located here:
      http://orrery.darwinports.com/dports/science/orrery/Portfile
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      The orrery Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: orrery
      Version: 0.9.5
      Category: science graphics x11
      Maintainers: ira.uka.de:raphael
      Description: A digital model of the solar system within Geomview
      Long Description: The Orrery is a digital model of the solar system, named for the mechanical models of the same name (often you'll see one with just the Sun, Earth and Moon, as little balls supported on wires). The first such was built for the fourth Earl of Orrery in the 1700s. It includes all nine planets, some of their satellites, and a few recent comets. Orrery is a Geomview module.
      Homepage: http://www.geomview.org/
      Platform: darwin
      Master Sites: sourceforge
      Master Sites:.mirror_subdir geomview
      livecheck.name geomview
      livecheck.distname ${name}
      Checksums: md5 cac12242a1e6477af2c5c1b320e54a50 sha1 27c768318bac4a05b6734742997f7c1c36e7962c rmd160 80fa23ad4245d4dbb8076526406bbf8b53335899
      depends_lib port:geomview port:tk

      platform darwin 9 { configure.ldflags-append -Wl,-dylib_file,/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGL.dylib
      }

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

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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