Platform compatibility

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Following are procedures for installing GNUstep on different Operating Systems.
References: Platform Compatibility HowTO

BSD

FreeBSD

You can install GNUstep via /usr/ports/devel/gnustep. However, not all required dependancies are installed.

If you install the following in advance, you should be fine:

• wmaker
• libxml2
• libxslt
• libgmp4
• libart_lgpl2
• libaudiofile
• ffcall
• glitz

You may also want to install /usr/ports/net/mDNSResponder.

Note: There is a bug in libkvm that requires a mounted /proc. Until this bug is fixed, make sure you have an entry for /proc in your /etc/fstab:

 proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0

References: FreeBSD GNUstep ports, Freshports GNUstep

HP/UX

We should stay away from HPUX-10.20, it is not supported by HP anymore.

Linux

Debian

Since Debian "Sarge" you can just say

apt-get install x-window-system-core wmaker gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games

to get GNUstep, X11 and Window Maker installed.

But what happen if you have stable (3.0) release ?

Here is an answer from gnustep irc channel:

 <fsmunoz> change every occurence of "stable" for "testing"
 <fsmunoz> remove the security.debian.org line
 <fsmunoz> do apt-get update
 <fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
 <fsmunoz> repeat  this last one until nothing gets installed or removed.
 <fsmunoz> the, replace "testing" with "unstable"
 <fsmunoz> then, apt-get update
 <fsmunoz> apt-get dist-upgrade
 <fsmunoz> repeat, repeat.
 <fsmunoz> done

Others

LiveCD for Intel

Current version is 0.9.4.2

Find the instructions to install and the CD itself here

Linksys NSLU2

References: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2005-02/msg00124.html