Things Mac are radically (very radically) different
from 15 years ago! OS X is essentially a BSD Unix
kernel (with additions from Mach and Next) and the
very nice/stable operating system is Unix.
OS X provides a wonderful (best I have ever used)
command line terminal program named, appropriately
enough, "Terminal" You can launch the Terminal
found in OS X /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
Once you have that Unix environment running, the
distributed instructions, found in install.txt,
work straight forwardly in the terminal window.
After downloading the installation package file
(j601c_darwin_powerpc.tar.gz) You can either use
the tar command described in install.txt, or just
click on it in the GUI environment - or, as it says
in the instructions, it may well have been unpacked
automatically after downloading (depends on
preferences in the browser you are using).
That would mean the only "required step" is the
sudo command to put the "dll" into place.
I do think it would be nice if jsoftware built a
standard .dmg installation package for j and located
things in the normal application directory, but there
are some advantages to having uniformity between
Unix, Linux, and Darwin (OS X) - a little difficult
to decide just what is best...
- joey
At 08:38 +1300 2006/11/29, Fraser Jackson wrote:
I recently tried to assist a professorial colleague install J on a
Mac OS X and I asked another similar long term Mac user to assist.
However the instructions left them completely baffled as to what to
do. Neither was familiar with the instructions at the command level
and neither had any idea what Sudo was and how to access it. They
used a Mac because they normally never had to concern themselves
with such things.
Can anyone explain simply what to do? Its 15+ years since I knew
anything about using a Mac.
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