Hi Gena, The "port install"... command you mentioned is part of a package management system for Mac OS X called MacPorts. The project page is http://macports.org
There are a few other competing systems for OS X floating around, the biggest one being Fink (http://fink.sf.net), but Fink doesn't build from source and has packages that can get pretty outdated quickly. There's also Portage from Gentoo Linux, but that's extremely alpha. If you're interested in building things from source, you should go with MacPorts. Keep in mind all the dependencies for MacPorts before trying it out - you need to have installed the xcode developer tools (and X11 and X11 SDK are absolutely required), they come with the usual gcc and all the tools you need to get started with MacPorts. cheers, jane On 5/31/07, Georgina Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All Well this is my first message on this list and I see that some of you like to keep focussed upon the GUI interface. I'm using one to compose this message but I really prefer the command line. I'm experienced with Linux and so look forward to using the power of the Mac. I'd like to get brltty running first but the build process appears to be quite complex i.e. building outside of the source directory. Also there's some of the Darwin packages I'd like to install. I read on a web page, that you simply typed "port install <packagename> and it would do it. I thought that it was too good to be true and it was. So could someone point me into the right direction for installing packages and building packages? Thanks. Gena Amateur Call: M 0 E B P VOIP / IM: gena1959uk
