[Visualpython-users] Mac OSX 10.4

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Aaron Titus has written up detailed instructions on how to compile and 
install VPython on Mac OSX 10.4, and these are now posted on the Mac 
download page at vpython.org. Thanks, Aaron! Here is what he says:

     The following instructions are for installing VPython on Mac OS 
10.4 (Tiger) using Fink 0.7.1. You will compile Fink and visual-py23, 
with its dependencies, from source. Installing the visual-py23 package, 
which depends on gcc3.1 and python23, took approximately 3 hours on my 
Titanium PowerBook G4.

     1. Follow the instructions for "users of the unstable tree" at 
http:// fink.sourceforge.net/ under the heading "News 2005-04-29: Fink 
and Tiger". Use a Terminal shell for typing your commands.

     Note that I followed the instructions for "users of the unstable 
tree" and did not "bootstrap" an installation of Fink, though you may be 
able to bootstrap Fink as well. When running "Fink selfupdate," it will ask:

     "This fink version introduces new settings stored in the fink 
configuration file '/sw/etc/fink.conf'. You should rerun the 
configuration process. Do you want to configure now?" The default is 
"N"; however, you should answer "y". Answering "N" will give the 
following error:

         "Please remember to call 'fink configure' later!

         done.

         Re-executing fink to use the new version...
         Failed: no matching version found for gettext"

     Use default responses for all other questions.

     2. Using Fink Commander, install the visual-py23 package from 
source. If you do not use Fink Commander, type the command "fink install 
visual-py23" in a Terminal shell.

     3. To run vpython scripts from a Terminal shell, you will have to 
link /usr/bin/python to /sw/bin/python23 using the following commands:

         sudo rm /usr/bin/python
         sudo ln -s /sw/bin/python23 /usr/bin/python

     Now you can run a vpython program using "python myvpythonprogram".