> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 01:04 -0700, stuporglue wrote: > Rather than compile everything from source yourself, which will get > messy, install fink and use fink. Set fink to use unstable, then (since > gramps is not yet in stable), do "fink install gramps" and then a few > hours later all dependencies will be built and ready to go. > > I'm working on this right now. Almost have it, except I appear to be > missing freetype.h (no idea why; this is a system header file). > > I've also compiled gnome 2.6 and KDE 3.2 (complete) using fink. Takes a > while, but at least fink automates it. Where there are no binary > packages available, fink works a bit like gentoo or portage, compiling > everything from source (with patches). Nice > > Michael > >
So what is the difference between using the "apt-get" and "fink" commands? Does fink compile everything while apt-get simply downloads the binaries? Casey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
