Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-05 Thread William Windels
. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal Hi Chris, Install the Ports infrastructure from macports.org, which is just a .pkg file you download

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-05 Thread Jon Cohn
geschreven: Thanks. I will give that a try. Chris. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal Hi Chris, Install the Ports

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-05 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Windels william.wind...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 9:27 AM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal Hello Zachary and others, I have downloaded version 1.9.2, i think from the macports project but when I run the installer, I receive

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-05 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
, June 05, 2011 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal If you insert the disk that has Snow Leopard on it, either the purchased one or the DVD that came with your computer, you will find an installer for xCode 3 on it. This should be sufficient. XCode 4 is needed

Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Seeing that OSX basically at the end of the day under the hood is! believe it or not, a form of Unix, and seeing that it is possible to get to a terminal shell through the Utilities folder in the finder, could one actually run Unix/Linux based CLI apps that don't require a graffic interface?

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-04 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Chris, Indeed, you can install Pianobar and run it quite happily. There are ways to make installing most common Unix software almost like apt-get, though the latter itself hasn't been ported over I don't think. Consider sites like www.macports.org, which maintains an up-to-date copy of

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
So, then, how would I install pianobar Chris. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal Hi Chris, Indeed, you can install Pianobar and run

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-04 Thread Zachary Kline
, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: So, then, how would I install pianobar Chris. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Thanks. I will give that a try. Chris. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:09 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal Hi Chris, Install the Ports infrastructure from

Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal

2011-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh, true. I didn't think a that either. Good point. Chris. - Original Message - From: Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Maybe a weird question about Terminal TO add to my last message, it'd