Platform compatibility

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Following are procedures for installing GNUstep on different Operating Systems.


AIX

BSD

Darwin

Intel
PowerPC

FreeBSD

You can install GNUstep via /usr/ports/devel/gnustep. However, not all required dependancies are installed.

If you install the following in advance, you should be fine:

  • wmaker
  • libxml2
  • libxslt
  • libgmp4
  • libart_lgpl2
  • libaudiofile
  • ffcall
  • glitz

You may also want to install /usr/ports/net/mDNSResponder.

Note: There is a bug in libkvm that requires a mounted /proc. Until this bug is fixed, make sure you have an entry for /proc in your /etc/fstab:

 proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0

References: FreeBSD GNUstep ports, Freshports GNUstep

Mac OS X

NetBSD

OpenBSD

HP/UX

We should stay away from HPUX-10.20, it is not supported by HP anymore.

Irix

Linux

Debian

Since Debian "Sarge" you can just say

apt-get install x-window-system-core wmaker gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games

to get GNUstep, X11 and Window Maker installed.

But what happen if you are on Debian stable (3.0) release ?

Here is an answer from gnustep irc channel:

 <fsmunoz> change every occurence of "stable" for "testing"
 <fsmunoz> remove the security.debian.org line
 <fsmunoz> do apt-get update
 <fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
 <fsmunoz> repeat  this last one until nothing gets installed or removed.
 <fsmunoz> the, replace "testing" with "unstable"
 <fsmunoz> then, apt-get update
 <fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
 <fsmunoz> repeat, repeat.
 <fsmunoz> done

RedHat

Advance Server 3.0
FC 3

Slackware

SuSE

Solaris

Intel

Sparc

Windows

Cygwin

MingW

SFU

Microsfot's Service For Unix.

Others

LiveCD for Intel

Current version is 0.9.4.2

Find the instructions to install and the CD itself here

Linksys NSLU2

References: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2005-02/msg00124.html