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The abook Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: abook
Version: 0.5.6
Category: mail
Description: Address book with mutt support
Long Description: abook uses curses libs and is able to import addressbooks from pine and netscape (ldif). Exports to mutt alias, html, pine, gcrd (GnomeCard), csv, elm alias, and plain text.
Homepage: http://abook.sourceforge.net
Platform: darwin freebsd
Maintainers: gmail.com:sbranzo
Master Sites: sourceforge
Checksums: md5 87d25df96864a7c507a4965e6d1da49d
depends_lib port:gettext port:libiconv port:ncurses port:readline
configure.args --with-libintl-prefix=${prefix} --with-libiconv-prefix=${prefix} --with-curses=${prefix} --with-readline=${prefix} --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
post-configure { reinplace "s|DESTDIR =|#DESTDIR =|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile }

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/abook
%  sudo port install abook  
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 abook
--->  Verifying checksum for abook
--->  Extracting abook
--->  Configuring abook
--->  Building abook with target all

--->  Staging abook into destroot

--->  Installing abook

- 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 abook with these commands:

%  man abook
%  apropos abook
%  which abook
%  locate abook

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