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The dar Portfile 48199 2009-03-16 20:59:10Z blb macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: dar
Version: 2.3.8
Category: archivers
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: nomaintainer

Description: Disk Archiver
Long Description: dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files.

Homepage: http://dar.sourceforge.net/
Master Sites: sourceforge

Checksums: md5 6c0d383c22df0e1816e860153f60d746 sha1 d0394ff9dd6a287e3b9b62ebe99e126bb6d8abd0 rmd160 0927b59ba0426634ba5c2ca8b7cad157d6579b13

depends_lib port:zlib port:bzip2 port:libiconv port:gettext port:openssl

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

--->  Staging dar into destroot

--->  Installing dar

- 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 dar with these commands:

%  man dar
%  apropos dar
%  which dar
%  locate dar

 Where to find more information: