I recently got a copy of FinkCommander, and I've been installing more UNIX packages on the iBook. Today, I managed to install dia.
I think I remember seeing a few people mention dia as a tool used in making line drawings for presentations, so I thought I'd give it a spin.
What was I thinking.
I must have decided to install dia before it hit me that it's a component in Gnome Office. Sure enough, installing dia installed all of its dependencies, including a decent chunk of Gnome (or at least the foundation libraries). It seems to have worked OK. dia does in fact appear to be installed properly, after what felt like a day's worth of compiling to install the dozens of packages that were required just to get dia to compile....
Oh, and here was an interesting twist in the middle of the process. I had upgraded bash earlier today, and then proceeded to upgrade one of its dependencies (I forget if this was intentional or unintentional...). Lo and behold, a few hours later, neither Terminal.app nor xterm could bring up a terminal window -- bash had a dynamic linking error that prevented it from running.
Thankfully, Terminal.app can override the login shell (tweaking NetInfo didn't seem to work) to something a little more sane (like /bin/sh). A simple fink rebuild bash did indeed fix the problem, once I managed to figure out what was going on...
I think it's time to take a big step away from computers for a while. I feel like I've developed a magnetic personality that's only drawing out the worst in software at the moment...
