Installing Gnome and/or KDE

Much of fink (but not all) of fink's gnome has been at 2.10 or 2.12 for several months, and fink has had kde3.5.1 for about a week. OTOH, OS X has compilers, and you're welcome to download and try to compile anything you like...hey, it's your machine, you can do anything you like on it:)

All dports and fink do is supply automated mechanisms to do the downloading and building (or downloading of precompiled binaries in some cases). But they also know about other dependencies (what versions of what packages must be installed first in order to build others, including stuff not from the official gnome or kde suite). Oh, and they also have I think several megabytes of patches needed to get gnome and kde to compile, along with some non-obvious configure flags.

Note that you will need to install gcc--it is not included in the default installation of OS X. You can most easily get gcc with XCode (also called Developer Tools), which may be on your Install CD/DVD, from the Custom Install area, or on a separate disc. If it's not, you can get XCode/ Developer Tools with a free ADC account: http://developer.apple.com/

Trevor

Okay, so I decided to start from scratch, reinstalled DarwinPorts and haven't reinstalled Fink yet. So now I've run "sudo port install kde", but now I've made it to kdepim3, and it seems like it's taking forever, it's been "building kdepim3 with target all" for hours. Is there a problem with the recent version of kdepim3 for DarwinPorts, or does it really just take that long?

Thanks

KDE will take a long time to compile.

Trevor

No, no. Not the full KDE, just kdepim3. I know KDE will take a while, but I thought kdepim3 was a little thing.

Sorry, let me clarify:
The KDE installation got hung up on kdepim3, so I decided to start over by installing kdepim3 by itself. Now, it's sitting on "Building kdepim3 with target all", and has been sitting there for a long time. Does it really take that long to install kdepim3? I'm not seeing any errors yet, but could it be hung up?