Installing and Using Fink

Hey guys, this is Mids in1. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to install something called Think. Think allows you to install Unix applications that are for other Unix platforms on your Mac. Think will install a command called apt-get, which will allow you from Terminal to install packages that you could normally not get on your Mac.

There are a few things I've installed with Think, such as Aircrack NG. I've also installed something called Raar, which is a compression algorithm, and more. So, I'll show you how to install Think easily.

First of all, you want to open up your web browser because we're going to use our web browser to download a file. You want to go to thinkproject.org/download. Once it's done loading, wait a second. You want to click the binary for your OS. So this one’s for Intel and this one’s for Power PC. Intel and Power PC are different, so I'll click the Intel version since my Mac is Intel.

Once it's done downloading, you want to open it up with Finder and open up the DMG. Once the DMG is unmounting, let me just skip this. It's going to open this Finder window up for you, so you just want to open Think Intel Installer, and this will show you easy-to-follow instructions on how to install it.

So I'll click continue, continue, continue, continue, agree, select my Macintosh HD, continue, install. Once it’s done installing, which will only take a few moments after you type your password, you’ll have a few more terminal commands. You'll have something added to your path—there will be all this complex stuff. Once it's done installing, I’ll show you what to do next.

Okay, so it's finished setting it up. It says "Setting up your Think environment." Your environment seems to be correctly set up for Think already, so that will probably not happen for you, but it happened to me. Once you open up Terminal or iTerm after it's done installing, you’ll be able to type apt-get. It'll bring up a list of options and stuff. If that doesn't happen, then type slsw bin paath setup.sh. This will set up your path, and if it is already set up, then it'll bring up this window.

So now when you type apt-get install name_of_a_package, say Raar, you need to type sudo before that. But this is a nice way to install Linux apps on my computer. Once you're done installing—whatever, Raar isn't actually a package—I’ll show you some packages that work later. Like I know Joe is a package.

Normally, after it's done installing, you'll be able to type the command in, and hey cool, there’s my Joe! You can also type sudo apt-get remove name_of_the_thing, and it'll just remove Joe. Joe is a text editor, so if you want to open up a GUI version of apt-get to install programs on your computer, in this Finder window, there will also be a file called Think Commander. There will be a few things, so I’ll just drag Think Commander inside of the Finder window that it opened up when I first unmounted. I’ll drag it into my apps.

So now in my applications, I have Think Commander! I’ll open it up. So here's Think Commander. It's the GUI for Think; it lets you see all the applications that are available right now. It's pretty cool.

This is loading now. Think, there are a lot of things that Think does that don’t always work. So if Think doesn’t work when you set it up, that's okay. I will try to fix it; I will try to help all of you. As you can see, there are just loads and loads of useless programs, and some of them are useful. I’ll just search for Raar.

Like, you can get the—oh look, unrar! I’ll install this. You can also install source code if you like to. Oh, it’ll ask me to run my password, whatever. Normally, you have to run this program as root, so I’ll show you how to do that in another episode. But these are a bunch of great things that you can install, like Kedit. I’m not sure Kedit ever worked for me, but Kedit's a text editor.

So this is cool, in my opinion, because Think allows you to install programs using Terminal. If you're a Linux user and you've noticed that you can't type apt-get install in Terminal, well, this is how to get apt-get install. So I'm just pointing it out that there's a great program called Think.

When you open up Think, there are no packages in this list. All you have to do to update is type scan packages, and once that's done, you can type think index. So that's how to set it up. You run scan packages and think index in Terminal if it's not working for you.

So I'm installing a package with Think right now using the apt-get terminal command. Just to review, after you've installed Think, you should type think scan packages and think index in Terminal, and then you can type apt-get install in Terminal, and it'll install a terminal application right onto your computer.

So the one I installed earlier called Joe—it's a text editor. So if you want to try out Joe, be my guest! Install Think and install Joe. So this is Think. It's a really cool way to install Unix programs on your Mac. I think it's great and awesome, and there's no reason why you shouldn't install it.

It only takes like half a gig, or even less, I think. So it's very, very lightweight compared to other things. You should install Think! Once you install Think, you get so much other great stuff with Think that you could get anyway.

So that’s really why I love Think. I wanted to make this video a while ago, but I never got around to it, so I'm finally making this video. If you guys want to install Unix programs on your Mac, install Think! And if you didn't understand this video, if there was anything unclear, message me and I’ll make it more clear.

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