> Rather than compile everything from source yourself, which will get > messy, install fink and use fink. Set fink to use unstable, then (since > gramps is not yet in stable), do "fink install gramps" and then a few > hours later all dependencies will be built and ready to go. > > I'm working on this right now. Almost have it, except I appear to be > missing freetype.h (no idea why; this is a system header file). > > I've also compiled gnome 2.6 and KDE 3.2 (complete) using fink. Takes a > while, but at least fink automates it. Where there are no binary > packages available, fink works a bit like gentoo or portage, compiling > everything from source (with patches). Nice
I've used fink for quite a while, but never really liked it. Even the "unstable" packages are always so far behind what's really out there. Gnome for example is on 2.8.2. There's quite a few features that have been implemented since 2.6 :-). Fink IS the easiest to use, but since I'd rather have more up-to date packages. I ended up installing darwinports last night. It's the BSD ports system for OSX, and it seems to be a fairly good compromise between Fink and gentoo-OSX. Gentoo's portage is a linux derivative of ports anyways. It downloads the source of the latest (or nearly latest) and tries to install it. WARNING: There is a fake site darwinports.com that will install a broken darwinports if you follow their directions! http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ is the real site. Happy installing! Michael ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
