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

[Bob Nielsen]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:56 AM, James Duffey wrote:

> 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 >
>

That URL is obviously unreadable from here :^).

> 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

I haven't tried gpredict, but suspect that the script is looking for  
a file which isn't in your $PATH. You can check for /tmp with "ls - 
al /tmp".  It exists on my 10.4.8 system, although I don't know if it  
was there originally (I suspect it was) or was installed when I added  
something later.  If you could post the specific errors that would  
help in determining the problem.

73 - Bob, N7XY