Wv version 1.2.4 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Wednesday the 17th of March, 2010

    version 1.2.4

      View the most recent changes for the wv port at: wv.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for wv.
      The raw portfile for wv 1.2.4 is located here:
      http://wv.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/wv/Portfile
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      The wv Portfile 53476 2009-07-06 17:42:11Z devans macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: wv
      Version: 1.2.4
      Description: A library for reading Microsoft Word files.
      Long Description: ${description}
      Maintainers: nomaintainer
      Category: textproc
      Platform: darwin
      Homepage: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
      Master Sites: sourceforge:wvware
      Checksums: md5 c1861c560491f121e12917fa76970ac5
      depends_build path:bin/pkg-config:pkgconfig
      depends_lib path:lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc:glib2 port:libgsf port:libxml2 port:zlib port:ImageMagick port:libpng
      patch {
      reinplace "s|-pedantic||g" ${worksrcpath}/configure
      }
      configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
      livecheck.regex "${name} (.*) released.*"

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

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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