Thank you for the messages, I will try my best and update you (and yes, contact SocnetV as well, to mention your point). My first obstacle now as a beginner is to find the "command line" to insert the commands. Is it inside the installed Fink, or do I use Terminal? Btw, I work on Mac Pro Quad core (Intel), OSX 10.5.8

Thanks

Michel

Hanspeter Niederstrasser a écrit :
On 7/28/10 2:01 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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On 7/28/10 1:00 PM, Michel Bührer wrote:
Dear all,

I am not a developer. Actually I am a journalist and my aim is to
download and run (or try to) SocNetV to map social networks. On the
download page of SocNetV, I am directed to Fink. I have installed Fink
and now... what? I find myself in an environment that is obviously
beyond my technical knowledge. I went through the FAQ and tutorials,
everything is very developer oriented and I just don't understand the
language. My question: is there a simple way to install and run SocNetV
via Fink and if yes, how?

Thanks a lot for any support, (or any suggestion about free or share
network mapping soft. I have installed Graphviz, but again, I have no
clue about how to use it, they have no FAQ, no manual, no instruction
even to start...)

Best,

Michel



We take no responsibility for what other websites say to do.  :-)  You
might suggest to the webmaster there that if they say to "Use Fink",
that it would be useful to include some information about what to do to
get their package installed, and how to run it.

If you have Fink installed, as well as Xcode, then the following
commands from the command line will install socnetv:

1)  fink configure

after you do that, then when asked if you want to use unstable packages,
say Y

2)  fink selfupdate-rsync

- -or-

fink selfupdate-cvs

These commands will download current package descriptions for you.
After running one or the other, you can use 'fink selfupdate' when you
need to update.

3)  fink install socnetv

That will install a bunch of stuff that socnetv needs, as well as socnet
itself.

If you're on OS 10.4 you'll need to start X11 before step 4--otherwise
just move on.

4) Then to run it, just type

socnetv

in a terminal window.  This package doesn't happen to build a Mac-style
application bundle.

Quick addition, there is a variant of this package called socnetv-mac, which does install a clickable .app into /Applications/Fink. So in Alex's directions above, just replace 'socnetv' with socnetv-mac in step 3 if you wish to have an application that more closely works like other Mac applications.

Hanspeter

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