I need to upgrade the Mac. The O/S version is getting a bit long in the tooth. I have V10.5, Leopard, I need to get to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here are my, now deprecated, notes and links.
Upgrading
This article, How to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard makes it seem easy, and here’s the companion article about preparing for the upgrade.
Snow Leopard is the version with the distributed upgrader, and so Snow Leopard has to be bought and installed from DVD.
Here is a web version of the man page.
Obviously, I need to back up the hard disk, and have used Time Machine. I am a bit worried since I do not know how to recover stuff using the UNIX utilities from a Time Machine Archive.
Legacy apps
The biggest augmentation I have on the Mac is macports, I still have Porticus installed but have pretty much given up on it and use the command line. The Porticus site states it is not 10.7 or Macports 2.0 compliant and points at Pallet, an ‘official’ GUI. The macports site has a Guide.
I know that I have used macports, port command to update WINE, and have used WINE to install NWN.
I have upgraded macports and it’s managed objects
$ port -v selfupdate ; port -v upgrade
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