View the most recent changes for the rb-mecab port at: rb-mecab.darwinports.com/diff
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http://rb-mecab.darwinports.com/dports/ruby/rb-mecab/Portfile
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The rb-mecab Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup ruby 1.0

ruby.setup MeCab 0.96 extconf.rb {}

Platform: darwin
Maintainers: gmail.com:rsky0711
Description: a Ruby module for MeCab
Long Description: ${description}

Homepage: http://mecab.sourceforge.net/
Master Sites: sourceforge:mecab
distname mecab-ruby-${version}
Checksums: md5 400479138d0cc1a7a4bf2af3e1bf581a sha1 2831121ed5121802c3bc0cbeedee7a04563e3bfd rmd160 bb0063b20162c0a6d02b529f9e451d8fe0e7b518

Category:-append textproc japanese
depends_lib-append port:mecab

post-extract {
reinplace s|\#!/usr/bin/ruby|\#!${ruby.bin}|g ${worksrcpath}/test.rb
}

post-destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/examples
xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/test.rb ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/examples
}

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/rb-mecab
%  sudo port install rb-mecab  
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 rb-mecab
--->  Verifying checksum for rb-mecab
--->  Extracting rb-mecab
--->  Configuring rb-mecab
--->  Building rb-mecab with target all

--->  Staging rb-mecab into destroot

--->  Installing rb-mecab

- 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 rb-mecab with these commands:

%  man rb-mecab
%  apropos rb-mecab
%  which rb-mecab
%  locate rb-mecab

 Where to find more information: