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Operating Systems Project 6-C Porting Gnuzilla & Icecat on Mac OS X Using Fink

Operating Systems Project 6-C Porting Gnuzilla & Icecat on Mac OS X Using Fink. Introduction. What is Icecat? Icecat is a web browser from Gnuzilla Application Suite. What is Fink? Package management system for Mac OS X. What does porting mean?

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Operating Systems Project 6-C Porting Gnuzilla & Icecat on Mac OS X Using Fink

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  1. Operating Systems Project 6-CPorting Gnuzilla & Icecat on Mac OS X Using Fink

  2. Introduction • What is Icecat? • Icecat is a web browser from Gnuzilla Application Suite. • What is Fink? • Package management system for Mac OS X. • What does porting mean? • To make a software compatible with new environment (for which it was not designed)..

  3. To check whether packages on which Icecat depends are available on fink . • If not present Create .info file & Install the 7 packages( shown above) on which Icecat depends. • Include them in fink by submitting .info file for them . • Create .info file for Icecat. • Install Icecat on Mac OS X. • Submit .info file for Icecat to Fink. • Testing package for stability. • Resolve stability issues . Implementation

  4. Status of Project • Found sub-dependencies for the following packages • Libpango • Libgtk2 • Libx11 • Libxft • Libfreetype • Libpangoxft • Libpangoft2 • Installed Fink on the Mac System • Installed Xcode on the Mac System • Registered project on SourceForge.net

  5. Next Deliverables • To create .info files for required packages • To install packages on which Icecat depends (6 remaining ) • Submit them to Fink

  6. Thank You Team Members :- • AkashDeo -2008005 • Digvijay Singh Chauhan -2008028 • K Rakesh -2008042 • K Vanoj Krishna -2008043 • Mamta Sharma -2008058

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