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[pandora_parrot]

So... I come home from my trip to New York to discover that I have a new roommate and a Macbook. Unfortunately, I am also sans one piece of luggage, the one that contains my toothbrush and pajamas...

Of course, I went out and bought the macbook. It's not like it was waiting for me here. But it was here when I get back, yes. :P

And my roommate is a lot hairier and has more legs than I was expecting.

So what all software do I need to install on this thing?

The laptop, not the roommate.

Comments

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

I only use fink, myself, though yes, it is a bit weird that it will bring in its own version of a library even when a sufficient version already exists in /usr/lib. You'd think that wouldn't be too difficult to test. I suspect it might have to do with fink's reliance on apt-get, which I think relies on its package database to determine what's installed rather than using, say, autoconf.

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

Even if it uses debians apt-get you would have thought it could have a pre-packaged database for each of the OS-X releases in the installer. So you install at the base a package which works out your OS-X version and installs the right DB so that apt-get knows what you already have installed.