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I am a beginning programmer playing around with making fractal music in python. I am thinking of using the mingus module to play the notes, however mingus need to have fluidsynth installed. I am trying to install fluidsynth using MacPorts. I have the fluidsynth files. When i run

sudo port install fluidsynth

on my Mac terminal it asks for my password, which i enter. It then says

sudo: port: command not found"

What is going wrong? I am on a macOs mojave, if that helps.

AzyCrw4282
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I suspect that you may have not installed MacPorts correctly. Follow the MacPorts documentation to install it correctly. Once installed, you can run a command like 

port installed

to list all of your ports.

If that worked then you can do this 

source ~/.bash_profile

and it should work. See more possible solutions from here

AzyCrw4282
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  • Thanks! I have now installed MacPorts correctly and then successfully installed fluidsynth version 2.0.5 but when using fluidsynth in mingus it still says ImportError: Couldn't find the FluidSynth library." Shouldn't this work since i have fluidsynth installed now? – Rudi Herrig Jun 20 '20 at 14:27
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as @Ila says here:

After lots of .bash_profile investigation, it turned out I just needed to reboot the terminal after installing MacPorts.

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