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Installing on Mac® OS-X

Note

Since June 2006 Krusader is added into the Krusader finkproject.org repository Please check this url for the latest information about the Mac® OS-X port, please read the fink documentation for more information, all information below could be outdated, though they should still work :) From now on the port is maintained by Catalin Hritcu.

Krusader is ported to Mac® OS thanks the fink-project and Jonas Bähr and Bodo Tasche . Unfortunately the only *stable* kdelib-binaries which fink has to offer is currenly 3.1.4 which means you need to use Krusader-1.40 . Unfortunately the Mac® OS X Krusader port does not have the same power as in a native Linux®-KDE environment. To run Krusader you need also X11, which doesn't interact with the rest of the Mac® OS desktop. We hope that Qt™4/KDE4 will solve most of these problems. If you want a more recent Krusader version you need to compile KDE. With fink it is rather easy but it takes some CPU cycles.

Installation Instructions for Krusader-1.40

  1. Download and install fink with the KDE3.1 binaries provided by fink and read the documentation.

  2. Extract the krusader-1.40.fink.darwin-ppc.tar.bz2 package to /sw/fink/dist/local/main/ Only root can write here. You may have to create 'local' and 'main'.

  3. Run as root: fink install krusader

Follow these instructions if you wish to compile more source code or use a more recent version of Krusader:

  1. Install Apple® X11

  2. Install the Apple® X11 SDK developer-tools with X11 headers (gcc is included)

  3. Install the fink-base

  4. Compile kdelibs 3.4.1 or higher (fink provides the necessary .info files)

  5. Compile the Krusader-tarball or follow steps 2 and 3 of the previous section if a recent Krusader-package e.g. krusader-1.70.0.fink.darwin-ppc.tar.bz2 is available

Follow these instructions if you wish to compile Krusader-1.80.0 :

  1. Install Apple® X11

  2. nstall fink and enable fink unstable.

  3. Compile and install the KDE bundle in fink: fink install bundle-kde-ssl (if you get “no package found” the previous step did not succeed).

  4. Use krusader.info (provided in the Krusader-sourcecode) and then copy to /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo .

  5. Compile and install Krusader in fink: fink install krusader

  6. Start X11 (startx) and in xterm run Krusader

Thanks to Catalin Hritcu for these install instructions.

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