I assume that a binary installation of Fink will be made available
for Mac OS 10.4 soon. However, for those who would like to install
VPython right away, here are instructions for doing so:
Note: 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.
Note that 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
Thanks again, Martin, for your help :-)
Aaron
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