Note: I didn't write this or even try it yet (don't have a clean mac handy right now...) but I have a few comments:
* The usage of "ls -F | cat" is to avoid the columnar output from ls.
* The instructions describe how to install Fink from source. There's probably a way to do a DMG install with the "installer" command, but I haven't tried that yet.
Chris
INSTALLING FINK FROM THE COMMAND LINE
You will need to enable Remote Login from the GUI. Then you can use the username and password you have established to ssh from another system on your network.
OSX is installed without the Xcode developer tools. Fink needs those, so your first order of business is to install them. Insert Mac OSX Install Disk 1. then type the following commands. The "ls -F |cat" commands are convenient to see what you are doing and to copy file and directory names.
cd /Volumes ls -F |cat cd "Mac OS X Install Disc 1" ls -F |cat cd "Xcode Tools" ls -F |cat sudo installer -verbose -pkg Developer.mpkg -target /
A lot of stuff will flash by on the screen. When the prompt returns do:
cd
On your other system, go to http://fink.sourceforge.net/ and download fink-0.7.1-full.tar.gz, or whatever the latest release is. Copy this to your home directory on the Mac using scp. then
tar xfz fink-0.7.1-full.tar.gz cd fink-0.7.1-full ./bootstrap.sh
Follow the onscreen directions. In most cases you will want to accept the default, but you may want to specify your continent and the closest mirror.
Fink will download, compile and install a basic system. This may take a while. When it is done, type source /sw/bin/init.sh
Now you may want to install some of your favorite applications. For example:
sudo -s apt-get update apt-get install nano apt-get install lynx apt-get install mutt ......... exit
Do NOT leave sudo -s running when you don't need it!
-- Chris Dolan, Software Developer, Clotho Advanced Media Inc. 608-294-7900, fax 294-7025, 1435 E Main St, Madison WI 53703
Clotho Advanced Media, Inc. - Creators of MediaLandscape Software (http://www.media-landscape.com/) and partners in the revolutionary Croquet project (http://www.opencroquet.org/)
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