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The raw portfile for fortune 6.2.0-RELEASE is located here:
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The fortune Portfile 54898 2009-08-04 07:59:52Z afb macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: fortune
Version: 6.2.0-RELEASE
Category: games
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Infamous electronic fortune-cookie generator
Long Description: ${description}
Platform: darwin freebsd
Homepage: http://www.freebsd.org/
use_bzip2 yes

Master Sites: macports

Checksums: md5 6185fe31e512e8b23ac5cc58ede27919
extract.only ${name}-${version}.tar.bz2
worksrcdir ${name}
dist_subdir ${name}

Patch Files: patch-fortune-Makefile patch-strfile-Makefile patch-unstr-Makefile patch-datfiles-Makefile patch-strfile.h

configure {
reinplace "s|/usr|${prefix}|" ${worksrcpath}/fortune/pathnames.h
reinplace "s|/usr/share|${prefix}/share|" ${worksrcpath}/fortune/fortune.6
reinplace "s|/usr/games/fortune|${prefix}/bin/fortune|" ${worksrcpath}/fortune/fortune.6
reinplace "s|XXPREFIX|${prefix}|" ${worksrcpath}/fortune/Makefile
}

build.type bsd

set datfiles "fortunes fortunes.dat fortunes-o fortunes-o.dat fortunes2-o fortunes2-o.dat limerick limerick.dat murphy murphy.dat murphy-o murphy-o.dat startrek startrek.dat zippy zippy.dat"

destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/games/fortune
xinstall -m 755 ${worksrcpath}/fortune/fortune ${worksrcpath}/strfile/strfile ${worksrcpath}/unstr/unstr ${destroot}${prefix}/bin
xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/fortune/fortune.6.gz ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man6
xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/strfile/strfile.8.gz ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man8
xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/strfile/strfile.8.gz ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man8/unstr.8.gz

foreach datfile $datfiles {
file copy ${worksrcpath}/datfiles/${datfile} ${destroot}${prefix}/share/games/fortune
}
}

platform darwin {
patchfiles-append patch-fortune.c patch-strfile.c patch-unstr.c
}

Variant: universal {
build.env-append CFLAGS="${configure.universal_cppflags} ${configure.universal_cflags} ${configure.universal_ldflags}"
}

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

--->  Staging fortune into destroot

--->  Installing fortune

- 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 fortune with these commands:

%  man fortune
%  apropos fortune
%  which fortune
%  locate fortune

 Where to find more information: