There are a coupla issues you will come across (paths being one).
This may be the dependency probs. Make sure that you have done this stuff:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/install.php?phpLang=en#setup
in order to make your pooter recognize the "/sw" directories.
From there, installing binaries should automatically get your dependent libs and such - much like yum in YDL
Keep us posted as to your progress. I for one would be interested in your discoveries, being new not only to Fink but to OSX as well.
bossa nova, daddy-o
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It's what you make it man
Takes time
A little bit
A little bit more-The Minutemen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:09 AM, Dan Fontenot wrote:
Thanks for the response. I have downloaded fink and finkcommander and am working on installing some things. My biggest problem right now is knowing which packages to install first. I try to install something and it tells me dependencies are missing, so I go install those....and so on....
Dan Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 2, 2004, at 10:54 PM, yamo wrote:
So, I have to download and install fink to get these programs?
Pretty much. There are others out there (DarwinPorts fer instance), but fink appears to have the best mix - variety of pkgs/recent packages.
This is the package list from the Fink site:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/index.php
What else does fink get me? ( Or is that to big a question to answer in one email?)
What does Fink get you?...
- All of your Fink apps get installed in their own directory - not their own partition that is unreadable by OSX (or vise versa).
- A GUI for installing binaries similar to .deg and .rpm files as well as for compiling from source.
- You won't spend hours trying to get your XF86Config file straightened out so you can make your pooter quit looking like it came from PlaySchool, or at least get the colors right.
- Can you believe copy and paste between Fink and OSX/OS9?
- You can set up your X11 environment to run your Fink apps (X11) rootless, or with your favorite Desktop/WM (GNOME, KDE, blackbox ...) rooted
- You can invoke your Xxx.app apps from X11 and vise versa - fer instance, Gkrellm's mail plugin (in X11) opens my Mail.app in Panther
- IMHO, the coolest thing you get with fink (over linux) is a seamless environent running OSX, Classic and *NIX. No messing with mol, no figuring filesystems, how tp mount them, and then figuring out why they won't work correctly.
- Excellent community support here as well as Apple's X11 mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - complete with working archives (unlike another list I could mention)
To be entirely fair, the downside ... - Give me a sec, I'm thinking ... - Still thinking ... - You may miss your virtual consoles
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It's what you make it man Takes time A little bit A little bit more
-The Minutemen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:19 PM, Dan Fontenot wrote:
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It's what you make it man
Takes time
A little bit
A little bit more-The Minutemen
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