Macports/digiKam - install in ADMIN-account or as USER ?

Hi,
for all my main apps, I want to switch over to open source / cross-platform. With the discontinuation of iPhoto, I think this would be a good moment to do this for my photo app, since one has to switch anyway. I chose digiKam. To install it on a Mac, one has to first install Macports, which I have absolutely no experience with (I'm NOT a developer, but I thought you guys might know best).
To save me some trial and error:
My main user account is (of course ) a NON-ADMIN account. When installing Macports / digiKam, is this best done:
from within the account of the user who later wants to use digiKam?
from within an ADMIN-ACCOUNT, and then ALL USERS can later use digiKam in their respective accounts?
or maybe it doesn't matter ...
I still like OSX, but it's always good to have options ...
Cheers.

Why do you want to do this? Anything you get from MacPorts is going to be kludgy tool developed for Linux. They almost always have to be installed as the root user.
i strongly urge you to reconsider this plan. The new Photos is a nice app. Why not use it?

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