Your best bet is to look at the packages documentation.
If you've gotten it installed, out of pure chance, you can look at the man
page, and that should tell you. the other thing you can also do is figure
out what dependencies it needs which again should be in the pkg's docks.
Otherwise, if you got it installed and are just wonderring, you can try
typing "which PackageName." Actually though, that may only tell you where
the actual binaries are. I don't think that specifically tells you it's
deps. I think there is a way with apt to get the list of dependencies
provided it's in one of your apt repositories, but I don't remember the
argument to pass through apt to do that. You might be able to pipe a
command through grep and figure it out. Not knowing the package, nor having
the documentation in front of me, it's kind of hard to really guide you
specifically.
Chris.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurel and Stockard" <laurel.stock...@gmail.com>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: can programs designed for lenox also be used on OS 10 Maverick
Chris, stupid question but I can't figure this out. How can I find out
what location the program's libraries are in? I'm sure the answer is
really obvious, and that I'm probably over thinking this, but yeah. lol
Laurel
On Dec 10, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Christopher gilland
<ch...@clgproductions.com> wrote:
Laurel,
first off, let's not confuse people. The O S is Linux, not Linox. It's
l i n u x, not l i n o x.
Secondly, it's definitely something that you could try. It depends on
what libraries it needs to work, and if all of them are in the correct
location, (usually /usr/bin.) some will be in /var or in /etc, although
most in /usr/bin. As long as they're there, there is a chance. Notice,
I did say, a, chance. It's honestly kind of hard to say. Here's
something though you could try if nothing else. go to:
http://www.macports.com
What this site basically is, is a repository of aps which have
deliveretly been ported over to work in Terminal on the Mac. These apps
normally were designed to run on Linux.
the other thing too about this is, if you don't find a macports for it,
and have to install it yourself, depending on the package, you might have
to build and compile it from source, which, if you don't have make
installed, (type "which make" at the prompt to find out,) then it may not
work. I suppose you could try sudo apt-get install make, but don't count
on it. Keep in mind that trying to do sudo apt-get install
YourPackageName probably isn't gonna work. this is because
/etc/apt/sources.list is probably totally different from the repos you'd
find in a Linux distro like Ubuntu/Debian, or Fedora, etc. So yeah...
In summation, it's possible, but don't hold your breath to it.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurel and Stockard"
<laurel.stock...@gmail.com>
To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 6:05 PM
Subject: can programs designed for lenox also be used on OS 10 Maverick
So, I'm looking at an open source program that would help me with
learning another language. Here's the thing, it says the program is for
windows or lennox though, but, I've been told that Lenox is pretty
similar to actual OS 10 Mavericks. So, as my subject line says, could an
open source program written and designed to work on lenox also work on
OS 10 Mavericks? Would it hurt to download it and try? Or would it be
totally nonworkable.
Laurel
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