Download and Install launch version 1.0.1 on Mac OS X
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      # $Id: Portfile 28953 2007-09-12 18:59:13Z nox macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0
      PortGroup xcode 1.0

      Name: launch
      Version: 1.0.1
      Category: aqua
      Maintainers: nomaintainer
      Description: command-line launcher for Mac OS X in the spirit of open

      Long Description: Apple provides a simple command-line launching program called open with Mac OS X. It offers few options - launching applications by name or by path, launching TextEdit, or opening a number of applications, documents, folders, or URLs. With the exception of special support for TextEdit (open -a), launch does all this and more.

      Homepage: http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/
      master_sites ${homepage}

      checksums md5 0c9f963701cdbe3272e2634cc3693b0d sha1 fe22ea94418db5243bff8302596f12bdd0cc5c9f rmd160 b118756cc60fe25f89a5f34417b68afe67eaf3f5

      post-patch {
      reinplace -E "/(MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET|SDKROOT) =/d" ${worksrcpath}/${name}.pbproj/project.pbxproj
      }

      xcode.destroot.path ${prefix}/bin

      post-destroot {
      xinstall -m 0444 ${worksrcpath}/${name}.1 ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man1

      set docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}-${version}
      xinstall -d ${destroot}${docdir}
      xinstall -m 0644 ${worksrcpath}/README ${destroot}${docdir}
      }

      Variant: universal {
      post-patch {
      reinplace -E "/OTHER_CFLAGS =/s|\"\"|\"${configure.universal_cflags}\"|" ${worksrcpath}/${name}.pbproj/project.pbxproj
      reinplace -E "/OTHER_LDFLAGS =/s|\"\"|\"${configure.universal_ldflags}\"|" ${worksrcpath}/${name}.pbproj/project.pbxproj
      }
      }

      livecheck.check none


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

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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