Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

[David Kastrup]

Tim McNamara <address@hidden> writes:

> On May 27, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Paul Morris wrote:
>> flup2 wrote
>>> I don't "install" it like a Unix program. I just expand the archive in the
>>> Applications folder. That way, the path to frescobaldi binary looks like:
>>> /Applications/frescobaldi/frescobaldi (the first "frescobaldi is the
>>> folder name, the second one is the binary itself).
>> 
>> I've added more explanation of this to the wiki page, along with some other
>> minor edits and typo fixes:
>> https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Frescobaldi-Mac-OS-X-install-guide
>
> Installing Frescobaldi remains one of the singularly frustrating
> interludes of my computing life.  I cannot figure out how anyone gets
> a damned thing done using Linux/BSD with all the asinine dependency
> issues, even with package managers.

sudo apt-get install frescobaldi

installs the binary packages.

sudo apt-get build-dep frescobaldi

installs all required dependencies for compiling yourself.  It is rather
easy with a package manager to get the dependencies under wrap.


-- 
David Kastrup