If somehow installing .pkg does not work in your system, you can compile it by yourself. This method works almost in all major Mac OS X versions from Tiger to Monterey.
Download latest release source from here. Also you will need Xcode already installed in your system.
unzip macports-base-x.x.x.zip cd macports-base-xxxxxxx ./configure make sudo make install export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH sudo port -v selfupdate sudo port -v upgrade outdated