OSX.1 and Gnome

[PolyPill]

We've got one of those G4's in our office and I was playing with it (only mac os I like because it's really BSD) and I tried that one stop gnome installation script/command.

As Root: "curl http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/one_stop | csh"

I have Darwin running in the OSX.1 desktop, but this is the entire desktop replacement.

I let it run for well over an hour and there were a lot of error messages on the screen during the "148 dots" part, then I got tired of waiting and just stopped it. Is this normal? On a T1 connection should it be taking this long and have so many error messages?

My thinking was no, but I've never done this before, and I don't know anyone that has, plus they didn't post an estimation of how long it will take.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

No, there is no real reason for me to do this other than I get very bored and I like the G4 case.

[XWRed1]

The ttopic seems to imply that you want to run gnome on OSX, hence need an X Server.

You can go to osxgnu.org and get prepackaged XFree86 binaries for OSX.

Get the right ones, install them. You will then have an X Server.

Then you should be able to go off and compile gnome, assuming Apple's gcc doesn't get mad (it wouldn't let me compile BitchX), or osxgnu.org might have some binaries for that too.

There's some other project out there, called fink, which seems to be an attempt at cloning debian's apt-get for OSX packages of Unix software/tools. Might want to look into that also.

[PolyPill]

Ummm, you must not know what the Darwin project is. It's another version of XFree for OSX. Like I said, I can run it on top of the OSX desktop, like how OS9 can be run, but I wanted to replace the OSX desktop with Darwin, which is what that one command, downloads and executes a script, is supposed to do, and is supposed to do it very very easily. I don't want to compile everything on my own, I've done that many times on Intel boxes running Linux and I just don't want to spend the hours/days doing it.

I more wanted someone that has tried this before to say something like "It took me 8 hours and I had errors too, but it worked" or "mine went right away without a single error message, you did something wrong"

I don't want an alternative to this method.

[XWRed1]

Ok, well, I've heard of XDarwin, but the only other Darwin I've heard of is the project run by Apple that consists of open sourcing the kernel and a few other core services of OSX.

Guess I can't help you, other than trying it out myself and seeing what happens.

[tbirdkiri]

personnaly i would just dump osx

[XWRed1]

What, and use OS9?

Har har har!

[tbirdkiri]

no,
just slap linux on that b!0t(h,
forgo OSX,
albeit. OSX is a a great OS compared to older Mac Os's but if you want Gnu just get linux.

[XWRed1]

Except alot of the gnu tools are available for OSX.

Anyways, this is at his work, so they probably still need to run some classic Mac apps.

Not to mention OSX has better hardware support.

Did you know OSX ships with gcc?