Installation - Mac
The Mac version is less well
tested, and should be
considered a beta version. Any problems are, however, likely to affect
the user
interface only, rather than the calculations. I have also had reports
of success running the Windows version on emulators for the Mac; speed
is only likely to be an issue for the larger calculations (asymmetric
tops, for example).
The website has an executable
(pgopher-darwin) compiled on OS X Panther (10.3.9). It runs under the
X, so you need to
make sure the
X11 User package is installed. It also requires
some libraries, which are best installed using
Fink. The fink website (
http://fink.sourceforge.net)
has detailed instructions for installation - the binary distribution
should be adequate. The libraries that may need installing include:
- glib (not glib2)
- gtk+ (not gtk2)
- gdk-pixbuf
If the binary does not run on your
system you may need to compile from source, or email
help-pgopher@bristol.ac.uk.
The Help menu entries do not do anything
at the moment, but the
help files are available at
http://pgopher.chm.bris.ac.uk/Help
and a zip file containing the current help files can be downloaded from
the
website.