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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
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Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson
September 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
7h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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X11-based Applications and Libraries

You can also use Fink to install many X11-based applications, such as the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), xfig/transfig , ImageMagick, nedit , and many others. Since Fink understands dependencies, installing some of these applications will cause Fink to first install several other packages. For example, since the text editor nedit depends on Motif libraries, Fink will first install lesstif. (This also gives you the Motif window manager, mwm.) Similarly, when you install the GIMP via Fink, you will also install the packages for GNOME, GTK+, and glib.

You can also use Fink to install libraries directly. For example:

% fink install qt

will install the X11-based Qt libraries. An Aqua version of Qt for Mac OS X is available from Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com).

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