############ Additional Installation Information for Mac OS X ############ Installation of NOMAD on Mac OS X is very similar to installation of NOMAD on other unix like platforms. However, because Mac OS X is a new platform not all of the dependancies install easily. In addition, many Mac Users are less familiar with the Unix command line. As such I suggest the use of the fink package manager to install some of the dependancies. Fink is available from and can be used to install the gd perl module and MySQL. Follow the installation instructions on the fink website (which are excellent, so I won't try and replicate them here). GSL and the gd-perl module are in the fink unstable tree, but both seem fine to me, you'll need to copy gsl and gd-pm to the /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo folder for fink to find it unless you have included the unstable tree in finks search path. Details on this are available on the fink website. However, for the lazy, this should work... sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/gd* \ /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/gsl-0.9-1.info \ /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ Once done, these programs may be installed by simply typing; fink install mysql gsl gd-pm this will also install the gd perl module. However DBI and DBD::mysql will still need to be installed manually, either using CPAN or by hand. gsl is actually only required to use (and compile) Mike Eisens AERIE analysis engine. To make AERIE you need to modify the makefile so it can find the gsl libs in the fink directory. To install the remaining perl modules use CPAN, good instructions are on the CPAN website ## README.MACOSX v1.0b2 Last Modified 02/01/2002