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Install MacPorts 2.5.3 without sudo / root privileges
# install
mkdir ~/macports
cd ~/macports
curl -O https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.7.2.tar.bz2
tar xf MacPorts-2.7.2.tar.bz2
cd MacPorts-2.7.2
./configure --enable-readline --prefix=$HOME/macports --with-no-root-privileges
make && make install
# bash / zsh
echo "export MACPORTS_HOME=\$HOME/macports" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=\$MACPORTS_HOME/bin:\$MACPORTS_HOME/sbin" >> ~/.bash_profile
# fish
echo "set -gx MACPORTS_HOME \$HOME/macports" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
echo "set -gx PATH \$MACPORTS_HOME/bin \$MACPORTS_HOME/sbin" >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
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If someone has time to reproduce this bug and report it to macports, that would be helpful. I have to do other things.

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