I love my iBook. I love OSX. And I love that it handles tech stuff without the crud that Windows throws at you. However, if I ever hear anybody tell me that Linux or Unix and all that GNU stuff is very user friendly and practically installs itself then my brain will melt.
Almost every little single detail has to be scrutinized and studied and trial & error are a major part of learning this stuff because the so-called ''help documents" always leave some detail missing.
Well after a night of fighting with my terminal I finally got as far as "fink install lincity" without a hitch - until it came to the end and said I need X11 SDK (which is apparantly available on the new OSX CD but not available for download.. or is it?) I also downloaded a newer X11 that won't run on what I thought was a perpetually self-updating OS, yet it will not install on my 10.2.8 (can't find an upgrade).
So I got an older version of X11 with no X11 SDK on my system. Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks for letting me rant.
(BTW, I took apart my iBook for repair and clean the other day and if you plan on doing the same any time, don't forget to pluck out those rubber feet to get at three other screws [the battery one has no screw]. There are also two weeny screws hidden at the underside of the CD rom area).
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A little more digging and it sounds like the X11SDK is no longer available for OSX10.2.8 unless you know somebody with the install package. If anybody has that can you please mail it to me. (It's not on any of the CDs that came with OSX10.2)
I wonder if there was ever a OSX10.2.9. Hmmm
Almost every little single detail has to be scrutinized and studied and trial & error are a major part of learning this stuff because the so-called ''help documents" always leave some detail missing.
Well after a night of fighting with my terminal I finally got as far as "fink install lincity" without a hitch - until it came to the end and said I need X11 SDK (which is apparantly available on the new OSX CD but not available for download.. or is it?) I also downloaded a newer X11 that won't run on what I thought was a perpetually self-updating OS, yet it will not install on my 10.2.8 (can't find an upgrade).
So I got an older version of X11 with no X11 SDK on my system. Anybody got any ideas?
Thanks for letting me rant.
(BTW, I took apart my iBook for repair and clean the other day and if you plan on doing the same any time, don't forget to pluck out those rubber feet to get at three other screws [the battery one has no screw]. There are also two weeny screws hidden at the underside of the CD rom area).
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A little more digging and it sounds like the X11SDK is no longer available for OSX10.2.8 unless you know somebody with the install package. If anybody has that can you please mail it to me. (It's not on any of the CDs that came with OSX10.2)
I wonder if there was ever a OSX10.2.9. Hmmm