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Install MacPorts to custom location

Install XCode
run xcode-select –install (maybe as root)¹⁾
Download MacPorts-2.3.4.tar.gz

cd /some/location
tar -xvkpjf ~/Downloads/MacPorts-2.3.4.tar.gz
cd MacPorts-2.3.4
./configure --prefix=/opt/macports --with-applications-dir=/opt/macports/Applications
make
sudo make install
echo "-x11 +no_x11 +quartz" >> /opt/macports/etc/macports/variants.conf
PATH="/opt/macports/bin:$PATH" sudo port -v selfupdate
PATH="/opt/macports/bin:$PATH" sudo port install zsh rcs pwgen wget unzip tinyca2 cvs pstree rdesktop lynx pidgin xsel

(For some paranoid reasons, I prefer to not have /opt/macports/bin in my default PATH)

PATH="/opt/macports/bin:$PATH" sudo port install jpilot

fails unfortunately for some not yet analyzed reason.

References

All this was basically extracted from the MacPorts Install Guide and the Installation Chapter of the overall Macports Guide. A little bit re-written and condensed to my taste

OSX

¹⁾

There was an issue when running ./configure related to accepting the licence which could be solved by running some command (xcode-select –install?) as root - don't remember the details

According to the MacPorts Quickstart Guide you should run xcodebuild -license - maybe that helps (too).