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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Darwin 10.4 - Gnome Post 302226775 by kpedersen on Tuesday 19th of August 2008 10:15:09 PM
Old 08-19-2008
Darwin 10.4 - Gnome

Hello,

I was curious about how one would go about installing gnome on darwin. As far as I know it must be harder than FreeBSD because there doesn't seem to be any ports for it.

Would you have to first set up a build environment (GCC etc...) and then compile it from scratch? or is there an easier way?

Would be quite a novelty using cheap arse Mac OS X Smilie

Thanks,
 

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gnome-dictionary(1)						   User Commands					       gnome-dictionary(1)

NAME
gnome-dictionary - look up words in an online dictionary SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The Dictionary application enables you to look up an online dictionary for the definitions and correct spelling of words. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information. OPERANDS
None. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Dictionary example% gnome-dictionary EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-dictionary Executable for Dictionary. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-dictionary | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Dictionary Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 30 Sep 2003 gnome-dictionary(1)
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