To get the MacPorts bash 5.0 the default shell, I now tried:
- edit /private/etc/shells so as to add /opt/local/bin/bash
- in System Preferences > Users & Groups, I opened Advanced Options for
my (adminstrator’s) account and changed the entry for Login shell to
/opt/local/bin/bash
- rebooted
Still, when I open Terminal and issue command “echo $BASH_VERSION” I get
response: 3.2.57(1)-release
Note: if in that apparent 3.2.57 shell in Terminal, if I give command “bash”
then of course I get response 5.0.17(1)-release
> On 31 Aug2020, at 12:32 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I want to upgrade the built-ub bash 3.2 shell on my macOS Catalina (10.15.6)
> to bash 5.0.
>
> I tried to do this by building from scratch, using the methods given at
> https://scriptingosx.com/2019/02/install-bash-5-on-macos/?unapproved=66418&moderation-hash=e680aa22ae89f6f565cadd63e63d04e0#comment-66418
>
> <https://scriptingosx.com/2019/02/install-bash-5-on-macos/?unapproved=66418&moderation-hash=e680aa22ae89f6f565cadd63e63d04e0#comment-66418>.
> But the final step, “sudo make install” gave a fatal error of ‘libintl.h’
> file not found.
>
> So then I successfully installed the MacPorts port bash @5.0.17_0.
>
> —> But how do I make this bash 5.0 my shell when I open Terminal?
>
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