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The raw portfile for emboss 6.0.1 is located here:
http://emboss.darwinports.com/dports/science/EMBOSS/Portfile
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The emboss Portfile 40400 2008-09-30 16:19:12Z jmr macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: EMBOSS
Version: 6.0.1
Category: science
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: gmail.com:mike.thon
Description: Molecular Biology software analysis package
Long Description: EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web.
Homepage: http://emboss.sourceforge.net
Master Sites: ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/
Checksums: md5 2182b148dace6bea403deed8facae40d
configure.args --includedir=${prefix}/include/emboss

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

--->  Staging emboss into destroot

--->  Installing emboss

- 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 emboss with these commands:

%  man emboss
%  apropos emboss
%  which emboss
%  locate emboss

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