I just installed OS X on a G3 PowerBook. Everything went well enough as far as I can tell.
Because it has a smaller (by today's standards) harddrive, I decided to just use the stable binary packages so I wouldn't need to install the developers tools. I also decided that I would use Mozilla, but instead of installing with Fink, I just installed the Mozilla package. 1. Did I violate some rule? Is there something special about PowerBooks? I just installed Xfree86, sawfish, and the claimed dependencies. (See 4 below for another potential problem.) Basic applications seem to work, but I haven't been able to get X to work well, yet. I copied most of the configuration files (.xinitrc, .cshrc, from my desktop machine). 2. Is there a way to start Mozilla or other programs in /Applications from the command line? They all seem to end with .app, but I would like to be able to start them. I have a fink installed Mozilla on one my (iMac) desktop where I can simply type "Mozilla" from within a shell inside X windows. On the powerbook I need to click an icon. 3. I noticed that there are some apps which are available as binary but have dependencies that are not available. Since I have two machines with Fink installed is there a way to copy over apps from my compiled machine to fulfill dependencies that can't be handled as binaries. Both machine are G3, an iMac, that I didn't even bother putting classic on, and a PowerBook, with half of its 6G partitioned for OS9; since I use the PowerBook for all my old OS9 apps as well it is really short on space. 4. Is there a better way to use dselect? It strikes me that the command line interface for fink, is much much easier to use than dselect. Can I use it and still wind up with just the binary packages. I find it very hard to read and follow dselect and in some cases I'm not quite sure if it is really resolving dependencies. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
