[ShyGuy91284]

I've got an iBook, and I prefer to keep it pretty simple, and don't want to bother with dependency trees, compilation, and stuff like that. I use a Gentoo desktop, so I am by no means against compiling, but for something like this it just seems unreasonable to need to deal with. Does anyone know of a variant of Fink (or something similar) that works on pre-compiled packages?: I'd like to use various UNIX/Linux software on my laptop (like Dia).

[Mithras]

Umm, you can only install binary packages if you want. Though that's usually a small subset of those available in source form. Use FinkCommander for a purty interface to the whole works.

[wataru]

If you're happy with the precompiled packages available with the stable release versions of fink, then no, you don't need to compile anything. But realize that you're stuck with a pretty old catalog of apps, and you can't even update fink itself except to stable releases (which are pretty far between).

[Detrius]

If you have another faster Mac running fink, you can build the latest stuff on it, and then use apache to setup an apt-get server, so that your other machines don't have to compile stuff anymore.