Getting GCompris to run in Mac Os X
My kiddo liked to play with GCompris, a quite nice (although none of them are as nice as I would wish they were) application suite for children. I had it running on my windows pc, but when I switched it to a mac mini (I just loved the silence), this was gone.
After a quick google for “GCompris Mac” quickly revealed a fink info page, I knew I had to go the fink route. I nstalled, find and fink commander and… nothing, no gcompris. I rechecked the page –> unstable. So I reconfigured fink to accept unstable branches, but nothing. These unstable branches never seemed to arrive.
So I left it at there. Yesterday I gave it a new try. On the fink faq I found an entry explaining how to install something on an unstable branch, without actually configuring fink to go completely unstable. Sounded quite like the thing I needed.
So I ran fink selfupdate-cvs and it seemed to pull down halve of the world (via cvs). After a while unstable brances seemed to appear and even the looked for GCompris entry. Victory!
So after I did fink selfupdate; fink index; fink scanpackages. I ran sudo fink install gcompris, it again started to download half of sourceforge to fulfill it’s dependencies. First build failed, I had to pull and build a library (don’t remember which) because fink “got confused”. Now I am during the second try and it seems to build even kde and enlightenment and whatever. Seems the dependencies are huge.
Other kids software I think is nice: