Installing common *nix applications from source on OS X can be a real pain in the neck. It may even defeat Slackware in some occasions :p Tools provided by Macports and Fink make life much easier and productive. On the following example, Fink is used to install gnuplot by using the Debian-like apt-get:
panoskrt$ uname -rs Darwin 9.6.0 panoskrt$ sudo apt-get install gnuplot Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: aquaterm aquaterm-shlibs gd2-shlibs libjpeg-bin pdflib-shlibs readline-shlibs texinfo The following NEW packages will be installed: aquaterm aquaterm-shlibs gd2-shlibs gnuplot libjpeg-bin pdflib-shlibs readline-shlibs texinfo 0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5461kB of archives. After unpacking 13.6MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main aquaterm-shlibs 1.0.0-1003 [31.6kB] Get:2 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main aquaterm 1.0.0-1003 [88.2kB] Get:3 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main libjpeg-bin 6b-17 [130kB] Get:4 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main gd2-shlibs 2.0.33-3 [130kB] Get:5 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main texinfo 4.8-1002 [1013kB] Get:6 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main readline-shlibs 4.3-1028 [108kB] Get:7 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main pdflib-shlibs 5.0.1-2 [1827kB] Get:8 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main gnuplot 4.0.0-1005 [2133kB] Fetched 5461kB in 43s (126kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package aquaterm-shlibs. (Reading database ... 5617 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking aquaterm-shlibs (from .../aquaterm-shlibs_1.0.0-1003_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package aquaterm. Unpacking aquaterm (from .../aquaterm_1.0.0-1003_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libjpeg-bin. Unpacking libjpeg-bin (from .../libjpeg-bin_6b-17_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gd2-shlibs. Unpacking gd2-shlibs (from .../gd2-shlibs_2.0.33-3_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package texinfo. Unpacking texinfo (from .../texinfo_4.8-1002_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package readline-shlibs. Unpacking readline-shlibs (from .../readline-shlibs_4.3-1028_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pdflib-shlibs. Unpacking pdflib-shlibs (from .../pdflib-shlibs_5.0.1-2_darwin-i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gnuplot. Unpacking gnuplot (from .../gnuplot_4.0.0-1005_darwin-i386.deb) ... Setting up aquaterm-shlibs (1.0.0-1003) ... Setting up aquaterm (1.0.0-1003) ... Setting up libjpeg-bin (6b-17) ... Setting up gd2-shlibs (2.0.33-3) ... Setting up texinfo (4.8-1002) ... * Texinfo: (texinfo). The GNU documentation format. install-info(/sw/share/info/texinfo): creating new section `Texinfo documentation system' * info standalone: (info-stnd). Read Info documents without Emacs. * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system. Setting up readline-shlibs (4.3-1028) ... Setting up pdflib-shlibs (5.0.1-2) ... Setting up gnuplot (4.0.0-1005) ... * GNUPLOT: (gnuplot). An Interactive Plotting Program install-info(/sw/share/info/gnuplot.info): creating new section `Math' panoskrt$ which gnuplot; /sw/bin/gnuplot
Fink: http://www.finkproject.org
Macports: http://www.macports.org/
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Hi,
man, you’re seriously oudated here. Try Macports plz. These macports are wayyyy much more sofisticated, up-to-date and clean than all the options that you gave us in this post 🙂
Last login: Sun Mar 8 10:39:57 on ttys000
Angel:~ atma$ uname -a
Darwin Angel.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
Angel:~ atma$ sudo port list installed|grep -i irssi
Password:
irssi @0.8.12 irc/irssi
Angel:~ atma$ sudo port info irssi
irssi @0.8.12, Revision 1 (irc)
Variants: darwin_6, perl, universal
Irssi is a modular IRC client that currently has only text mode user interface, but 80-90% of the code is not text mode specific, so other UIs could be created pretty easily.
Also, Irssi is not really even IRC specific anymore, there’s already a working SILC module available. Support for other protocols like ICQ could be created some day too.
Homepage: http://irssi.org/
Library Dependencies: gettext, glib2, libiconv, ncurses, openssl, zlib
Platforms: darwin
Maintainers: nomaintainer@macports.org
Angel:~ atma$
Pano, thanks for pointer. I thought that Darwinports and Macports were the same but indeed their repositories are different and Darwinports development seem to have stopped time ago.
I replaced Darwinports with Macports in the post…