[Ham-Mac] Is there a tutorial for installing Linux/Unix/X-11 applications?

[James Duffey]

Is there a tutorial somewhere for a Unix beginner that will help me  
install some applications on my mac?

It has been 12 years since I last worked with Unix and now I remember  
why I gave it up.

I would like to install a few Unix/Linux ham applications on my iMac  
G4 running Tiger OSX 10.4.8.

I thought I would start with gpredict as the instructions for  
installation seem pretty straightforward.

So I downloaded it and detarred and degzed it. I now have a gpredict  
file on my desktop.

I open my terminal and try to use the install script here:

< file:///Users/jamesduffey/Desktop/gpredict-0.7.1/README.MacOS_X.html >

I get errors depending on what I try, mostly saying it can't find the  
file or no such directory exists or that I have undefined variable.   
I suspect that I am not running it from the proper directory. It  
seems to have a lot of problems with /tmp. Do I need to generate a / 
tmp directory or is there one already somewhere? If I need to  
generate it, where do I put it?

What directory do I need to run the script from? Has anyone installed  
gpredict that can help me? Thanks - Duffey
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James Duffey KK6MC/5
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