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:

• Poisson Rouge
• Tux Paint