Chris Hedemark on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:03:04 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Without OS X


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On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 06:41 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

Fred writes:
so it's probably possible, but I'm sure it's not as easy as "apt-get
install icewm".

That's the trouble with most OS X discussions in Linux circles; most people *aren't* sure of what they're talking about. I am going to demonstrate further down.


Gabe responds:
Actually, it is. Fink == apt.

No, actually it really is as easy as "apt-get install icewm". Fink is a lot more like the ports tree from *BSD, as it downloads the source code and compiles on your hardware. apt-get is bundled with fink and installs the binaries directly.


fink != apt

As for installing icewm...

bash-2.05a$ uname -a
Darwin gambusia 6.3 Darwin Kernel Version 6.3: Sat Dec 14 03:11:25 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.23.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
bash-2.05a$ sudo apt-get install icewm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
icewm
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2422kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package icewm.
(Reading database ... 22819 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking icewm (from .../icewm_1.2.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up icewm (1.2.2-1) ...
bash-2.05a$




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