General release packages: pre-beta

Dr. Michael L. Love, 2001.06.20

Warning: These instructions are still a work in progress and may contain inaccuracies or omissions. Be sure to read the APSL and the GPL, so that you will know your rights. Send any email regarding this document to proclus@iname.com (Dr. Michael Love). Please remember that we are in alpha, so this procedure is for the adventurous. Almost all the packages work, but there are still many problems. Join the project, if you want them fixed!

I think that we can go beta with what is in this directory, If there are other items that should be in the GNU-Darwin base, you should also let me know. This directory currently holds 47MB, so there is plenty more room. If you would like to help with the source code, feel free to check it out.
Regards,
proclus

1. Before you use the new package manager, you will have to replace your tar binary. You can use the following commands to backup your default tar and replace it with the new one.

   wget http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/packages/tar
   su root (that would be sudo -s for a stock OSX installation)
   cp /usr/bin/tar ~
   cp tar /usr/bin
   

2. Install the package manager applications according to these instructions. Then look below and download the desired package to a directory called "packages". Here is an example of how to use pkg_add.

   su root (that would be sudo -s for a stock OSX installation)
   cd packages
   pkg_add -vf ./windowmaker-i18n-0.62.1_1.tgz
   

3. Use pkg_add to install additional packages that you might want, such as the esound-0.2.22.tgz, and the esd-enabled everybuddy-0.2.0_1.tgz, gqmpeg-0.8.1.tgz, and mpg123-esound-0.59r.tgz packages. GNU-Darwin has audio support now, net-audio that is, if you have a second computer with esd running and good sound support.

4. Finally, if you got to this step, and you are still frustrated, and you simply must have these packages, then follow this procedure for each one. This will also install nasty +files, which you can delete with an "rm ./+*"

   su root
   cd /usr/local
   tar -zxf ThePackage.tgz
   

5. If you still have questions, try posting a message to the one of the discussion forums.

   http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-darwin-ports
   GNU-Darwin-ports for discussion of the GNU-Darwin porting engine.

   http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-darwin-distribution
   Using The GNU-Darwin Distribution

Finally, check out The Darwin Collection CD set, which offers nearly 2000 software packages which are compatible with this system, plus much more.

TDC package info list: Use this list to query specific packages, just like pkg_info.


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