Added notes about MacPorts
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ Installing
You will need Python.
Beets works on Python 3.6 or later.
-* **macOS** 11 (Big Sur) includes Python 3.8 out of the box.
- You can opt for a more recent Python installing it via `Homebrew`_:
- ``brew install python3``
+* On **macOS**, there's a `MacPorts`_ port. macOS 11 (Big Sur) includes Python
+ 3.8 out of the box and you may install it via ``pip``. You can opt for a more
+ recent Python installing it via `Homebrew`_: ``brew install python3`` for older
+ versions. There's also a MacPorts port. Just run ``port install beets`` or
+ ``port install beets-full`` to install it with a lot of 3rd party plugins.
* On **Debian or Ubuntu**, depending on the version, beets is available as an
official package (`Debian details`_, `Ubuntu details`_), so try typing:
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ Beets works on Python 3.6 or later.
.. _OpenBSD: http://openports.se/audio/beets
.. _Arch community: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/beets/
.. _NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/tools/audio/beets
+.. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org
If you have `pip`_, just say ``pip install beets`` (or ``pip install --user
beets`` if you run into permissions problems).
@@ -71,14 +74,14 @@ new versions.
.. _@b33ts: https://twitter.com/b33ts
-Installing on macOS 10.11 and Higher
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Installing by hand on macOS 10.11 and Higher
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Starting with version 10.11 (El Capitan), macOS has a new security feature
called `System Integrity Protection`_ (SIP) that prevents you from modifying
-some parts of the system. This means that some ``pip`` commands may fail with
-a permissions error. (You probably *won't* run into this if you've installed
-Python yourself with `Homebrew`_ or otherwise.)
+some parts of the system. This means that some ``pip`` commands may fail with a
+permissions error. (You probably *won't* run into this if you've installed
+Python yourself with `Homebrew`_ or otherwise. You can also try `MacPorts`_)
If this happens, you can install beets for the current user only by typing
``pip install --user beets``. If you do that, you might want to add
