Fink and DarwinPorts

[Mac Lad]

Hallo,

I just would like to know how your opinion toward Fink and/or DarwinPorts. I actually never use either of them, partially because I'm a beginner to Unix/porting/compiling and all of that stuff. In addition, Terminal kind of scares me to death :D. At the same time, however, there are so many cool open-source apps for Unix/Linux that I would like to utilize in my lovely powerbook. Is it just better to get both Fink and DarwinPorts and try them out? I visited their websites (Fink + DarwinPorts) and I just barely understand what the heck is going on...

someone help me please.... Thanx thanx thanx

[cb911]

just jump in and start trying out some Terminal comands is the best thing to do. :) or course, just dont' type random stuff... just google something like "termainl commands" and you should get the basics from that.

here's a good article talking about both DarwinPorts and Fink, and it also has easy to follow instructions for installing both.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3076

i've got both DP & Fink installed, since there's some packages that you can only get on DP or Fink, but not both.

hope that helps you out.

[belf8st]

You can also check out Fink Commander

http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/

It's a nice gui interface for fink. You might want to get familiar with Debian's apt . Just google for it. There's a ton of good documentation out there with regards to Debian's tool.


just jump in and start trying out some Terminal comands is the best thing to do. :) or course, just dont' type random stuff... just google something like "termainl commands" and you should get the basics from that.

here's a good article talking about both DarwinPorts and Fink, and it also has easy to follow instructions for installing both.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3076

i've got both DP & Fink installed, since there's some packages that you can only get on DP or Fink, but not both.

hope that helps you out.

[cluthz]

Hallo,

I just would like to know how your opinion toward Fink and/or DarwinPorts. I actually never use either of them, partially because I'm a beginner to Unix/porting/compiling and all of that stuff. In addition, Terminal kind of scares me to death :D. At the same time, however, there are so many cool open-source apps for Unix/Linux that I would like to utilize in my lovely powerbook. Is it just better to get both Fink and DarwinPorts and try them out? I visited their websites (Fink + DarwinPorts) and I just barely understand what the heck is going on...

someone help me please.... Thanx thanx thanx


Download the full fink package with FinkCommander.
FinkCommander is a graphical UI that is very easy to use, darwin ports is a bit harder to use..

[Mac Lad]

Thanx for the replies! That O'Reilly article was particularly very helpful. So...I'm definitely gonna try out Fink and FinkCommander. I noticed that some people in the forum prefer DarwinPorts and bash on Fink for some reason that I am not aware of. I guess I'll find out....

Ciao!