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Dr. Michael L. Love,
updated Wed Jan 8 16:38:42 EST 2003

Be sure to read the APSL and the GPL, so that you will know your rights. Send any email regarding this document to proclus@gnu-darwin.org (Dr. Michael Love).

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Tip: The GNU-Darwin base distribution includes over 100 essential packages, but here you will have access to the thousands of packages that are available for the base system. For more packages, check the links to additional packages at the bottom of this page. If you are new to the Distribution, and you are looking for a quick and easy way to install the GNU-Darwin basefiles, try the One Step Installer, GNU-Darwin Office or Bootable Installer CDs. If you have already done that, then you can skip to step 2.

Note: If you are a Darwin-x86 user, then consult the GNU-Darwin installation notes for Intel users.

1. If you do not plan to install the base distribution, you will still need the package manager to install GNU-Darwin packages. Use the following procedure to install the package manager and essential files. Darwin-only users may have to fetch wget to a second computer, scp the file to your computer and install curl. (see scp man page). To bypass package installation, kill the installer with control-C at the database initialization step.

   su root (that would be sudo -s for a stock OSX installation)
   curl http://www.gnu-darwin.org/one_stop | csh
   

2. Install a test package with the following procedure.

   pkg_add -f \
   http://www.gnu-darwin.org/packages/ppc/All/curl-7.8.tgz
   
   

3. The test package may complain about not finding certain other packages. Use "pkg_add -f" to install the required packages from the list below. Version number descrepancies can be disregarded for this group of packages. The "-f" flag tells the package manager to proceed despite such "non-fatal error messages".
4. Use pkg_add to install additional packages that you might want, such as the esound-0.2.22.tgz, and the esd-enabled everybuddy-0.2.0_1.tgz, gqmpeg-0.8.1.tgz, and mpg123-esound-0.59r.tgz packages. GNU-Darwin has audio support now, net-audio that is, if you have a second computer with esd running and good sound support.

5. GNU-Darwin packages are merely sophisticated tar archives, which you can test with the following procedure. This will also install nasty +files, which you can delete with an "rm ./+*"

   cd /usr/local
   tar -zxf ThePackage.tgz
   

You can also try "zcat ThePackage.tgz|more".

6. If you still have questions, try posting a message to the one of the discussion forums.
   http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-darwin-ports
   GNU-Darwin-ports for discussion of the GNU-Darwin porting engine.

   http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-darwin-distribution
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