![]() ![]() Then, determine if your Mac meets ALL minimum system install requirements. This step is really needed in case something goes wrong with the install of the new OS or you simply do not like the new OS, you have a very easy way/procedure to return your Mac to its former working state. Then, use either OS X Time Machine app to backup your entire system to the external drive OR purchase, install and use a data cloning app, like CarbonCop圜loner or SuperDuper, to make an exact and bootable copy (clone) of your entire Mac's internal hard drive. ![]() ![]() Hopefully, people might see this earlier than spending hours and hours on this problem.Before embarking on a major OS upgrade, it would be wise, advisable and very prudent if you backup your current system to an external connected and Mac formatted Flash drive OR externally connected USB, Thunderbolt or FireWire 800, Mac formatted hard drive. Quite weird cause and solution but amazing to see Xcode, MacPorts and gnuplot finally working on my computer. Later I reverted my System’s date correctly and everything works quite nicely again. Finally I found the solution on Stack-Overflow which worked for me.Įssentially, I had to change my System’s date to, start the installation from DVD and it worked like a breeze. Again the same results and I went again searching for possible solutions. It’s a huge file (more than 3.5 GB) so took quite some time on my not so fast Internet connection. I looked at Apple developer center and after lot of searching around, found a downloadable version of Xcode installer. But towards the end, the installation failed without giving any reasons. Starting the installation program from DVD was pretty straight-forward. Though it might not have all the features of latest release of Xcode but for many use-cases, it would be sufficient. Install from Software DVD : Xcode 3.2.3 comes along with some other optional Softwares on Mac OS DVD.Otherwise, you are required to pay for the Software. If you have Mac OS-X 10.7.x or Lion, then you can install Xcode 4.x for free from Apple Developer Center.There are 2 ways to get Xcode on your computer: Through MacPorts, installation of gnuplot is just one command:īut in order for MacPorts to work properly, it requires fully functional installation of Xcode. Similar to APT (Advanced Packaging Tool), available on Debian Linux distribution systems, we have MacPorts for Mac-OS. For my case, I wanted to install gnuplot, a tool for generating graphs and plots based on my data. Apart from SDK’s for iPhone/iPad application development, it also comes bundled with gcc compiler and other Unix utilities which are required for installation of many other packages. Xcode is Apple’s IDE for creating applications for Mac, iPhone and iPad. ![]()
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