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This page describes how to use the rabbitmq.com MacPorts repository to install the latest server release.

When a new version of the RabbitMQ server is released, it can take some time for the version included in the main collection of MacPorts packages to be updated. So we provide a special-purpose MacPorts repository to give OS X users easy access to the very latest release of the RabbitMQ server.

Once you have installed MacPorts, enable the rabbitmq.com repository as follows:

1. Open /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf in a text editor, and add the following http: URL before the existing rsync: URL like so:

   http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/macports
   rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ [default]

2. Use the following command to cause MacPorts to retrieve the package indices from the newly-added repository:

   sudo port sync

3. If the rabbitmq.com repository has a newer version of the RabbitMQ server than the main MacPorts one, this should now be visible when in the results of the port search command:

   sudo port search rabbitmq-server

   Which, for example, might produce:

   rabbitmq-server @1.7.0 (net)
       The RabbitMQ AMQP Server
   
   rabbitmq-server @1.7.1 (net)
       The RabbitMQ AMQP Server
   
   Found 2 ports.

4. Following the usual installation process will now install the latest release of the RabbitMQ server.