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http://rb-ferret.darwinports.com/dports/ruby/rb-ferret/Portfile
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The rb-ferret Portfile 53437 2009-07-06 05:42:43Z blb macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup ruby 1.0
ruby.setup ferret 0.11.6 gem {} rubyforge_gem
Category:-append devel textproc
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Text search engine library for ruby
Long Description: Ferret is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in pure Ruby (with an optional C extension).

Platform: darwin

Checksums: md5 f26e531d3c0da085d7461a3648e2974f sha1 83e0fada54e20445fe4ed7cd1dcdf9ffe74bb953 rmd160 8f3fb148dafea297468fdc277c94f13fd4c4e164

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

--->  Staging rb-ferret into destroot

--->  Installing rb-ferret

- 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-ferret with these commands:

%  man rb-ferret
%  apropos rb-ferret
%  which rb-ferret
%  locate rb-ferret

 Where to find more information: