Hi James, Am Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:02:35 -0500, schrieb James Greenidge: >> > Thanks for the swift reply. Only thing is those instructions >>> don't explain how you install libfreetype after you've downloaded >> > it and how. >> Sure they do :-) You don't need to install those libraries. >> Scroll down to the topic "Replacing libfreetype (optional)" >> and follow the instructions given. >> Create a backup folder for the existing libfreetype files, copy >> them into this backup folder and afterwards replace them with the >> ones in the tar.gz archive. It is really that simple. I did this >> before and I did it again today because I finally updated to 10.4.3 >> after staying with 10.3.9 till friday. > > Please understand, I am _not_ a techie! I have > libfreetype-2.1.9-davidchesterpatch.tar.gz sitting on my desktop > and I don't know what the heck to do with it. The instructions > say > 'http://www2.entropy.ch/download/libfreetype-2.1.9-davidchesterpatch.tar.gz' > ... % cd /usr/X11R6/lib/ % sudo mkdir libfreetype-orig Password: > % sudo mv libfreetype.* libfreetype-orig % sudo tar -xzf > ~/libfreetype-2.1.9-davidchesterpatch.tar.gz and I don't know > where in Sam Hill to do this or even how! A step-by-step wizard > would sure help!
O.K. It appears to me that up to now you haven't used a terminal and therefore we need to begin some steps earlier. So here we go: Go to your Application Folder Press Apel+O to open it You find a folder called Utilities Open this folder You see an app called Terminal Launch Terminal you see an terminal on your screen In this terminal you see a welcome screen like this: Last login: Sun Nov 20 15:34:27 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! EricPB:~ mav_eric$ After the last maveric you can start to type and you have access to the command line. From this point on you do as adivced on the page. curl is command line tool that allowes you to download everything you want to from the net and comes with Mac OS X so you don't need to install anything here too. BTW Installing OpenOffice.org 2.0 is that easy. Download the diskimage and drag and drop the app inside it to your application folder. This is easy. If you have 1.1.x it's nearly as easy. Download the image and double click on the installer and follow its adivces. It doesn't get much easier. You can only use what you have as software and we use the tools that Apple provides us and we try to keep it simple. Really. But if you want to use hacks and modify your software in a more or less unofficial way you have to life with the fact that hacks are nothing a non-techniccal-savvy can do the first time he reads it and is in the situation to use a terminal. Anyway I hope that things are clearer now and that you come to your improvings. If you still have questions please ask them. Kind regards, Eric Hoch -- ## Ansprechpartner Anwenderunterstützung, users-Mailingliste, MacOSX ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office für MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
