February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second EditionBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 11. Fink
Fink is essentially a port of the
Debian Advanced Package Tool (APT), with
some frontends and its own centralized collection site, which stores
packaged binaries, source code, and patches needed to build software
on Mac OS X. The Fink package manager allows you to install a
package,
choosing whether to install it from source or a binary package.
Consistent with Debian, binary package files are in the
dpkg format with a
.deb extension
and are managed with the ported Debian tools
dpkg and apt-get.
Fink also provides tools that create a .deb
package from source. It maintains a database of installed software
that identifies packages by the combination of name, version, and
revision. Moreover, Fink understands dependencies, uses
rsync to propagate software updates, supports
uninstallation, and makes it easy to see available packages and
installed packages. Fink can be used to install over a thousand Unix
packages that are freely available and will run on Mac OS X. Fink
recognizes and supports Apple’s X11 implementation
for running X windows applications, but you can also use Fink to
install XFree86 if you prefer.
Fink installs itself and all of its packages, with the exception of
XFree86, in a directory named
/sw, thus completely
separating it from the main /usr system
directory. If problems occur with Fink-installed packages, you can
simply delete the entire /sw directory tree
without affecting your system.
Installing Fink
You can install Fink from binary, from a ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.