I will confess, I have never installed software on a Unix system before today. (Content management systems don’t count.) This is largely because I have never had root access, but never mind that.
I am hating every minute of this.
“So, how long is this going to take?”, I asked Matthew as I watched my terminal screen hang a few lines after typing “sudo port install ‘ImageMagick'”.
“Depends… what’s it hanging on?”
“It says, ‘Building XFree86 with target World’.”
“Um… you’re going to be doing that for a couple of hours.”
As Marcus would say, “Dagnabbit.”