On Feb 25, 2013, at 18:51, Clemens Lang wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:11:06PM -0800, Robert Wang wrote:
>> Under the MacPorts Installation section of the website, it advises
>> that there is an experimental ".deb package" for installing MacPorts
>> under Ubuntu. Would anyone please be able to point me to where I can
>> find this package? Thank you.
> 
> I don't think we still have this package. However, MacPorts base does
> build on Linux systems (if you install some GNUstep libraries and
> have an Objective-C compiler).
> 
> I shall warn you though: Pretty much the only useful thing you can do
> with this Linux version of MacPorts is generate a PortIndex and mirror
> distfiles. Do not expect it to build any software.

Probably many ports will build. Probably many won't. So we should ask: Robert: 
What do you want to do with MacPorts on Linux?

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