Daniel Hale wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I've fink'ed bundle-gnome ("fink install bundle-gnome" if memory serves)
> onto my dual-USB iBook/500. I have 384 MB of RAM, and about 3 GB of
> hard drive open. Fink apparently chose to download sources and compile
> them.
Yes, "fink install" does that. If you want to download precompiled
binaries, you should use "sudo apt-get install" (or dselect or one of
the options of FinkCommander).
> How long should this take?
This depends on what you already have installed. If you start from
scratch, you will first have some heavy downloads (fink first downloads
everything it needs before it starts compiling). Xfree86 which you are
probably automatically building, too, alone has sources of almost 50MB.
And there are some other heavyweights of a couple MB each in the bundle.
> It's been 18 hours since I typed the
> fink command. DSL, not modem.
The downloads should be finished long since, I would say. The compiling
can easily take a day or two. Just wait until you install bundle-kde ;-)
That took me 3 days on a G4/733MHz which is probably twice as fast as
your iBook.
> Not frustrated, just... curious. This Unix build/make business is new
> to me.
The real frustration comes when the compiling doesn't go through because
of some bug or other. In any case, you won't have to re-download the
sources, even if the compiling stops, and you won't have to re-compile
the packages that have finished compiling (that is, until the packages
are updated and require new versions of the sources, too).
--
Martin
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