Tuesday, August 23, 2011

ruby + xcode + macports + misc for the osx 10.5.8 g4 mac mini

no one supports leopard osx 10.5 for the g4 anymore since snow leopard and lion are the latest and greatest.  i was hoping to use this bad boy as my little test machine, but i can't even get rubygems to stop barfing on me and can only find installers for intel and x86 versions of software.  grr!  


my shitty little g4 specs:
osx 10.5
40GB Hard Drive
1.25 GHz PPC G4
512MB RAM
Radeon 9200
CD-RW Drive



resources i've located on the interwebz:
get xcode 3.0 for osx 10.5 here: https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=19897


[save yourself some time and download this one instead!] 
get xcode 3.1 for osx 10.5 here: https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20414

get fink for osx 10.5 here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/files/distribution/0.9.0%20for%20OS%20X%2010.5/Fink-0.9.0-PowerPC-Installer.dmg/download


get macports for osx 10.5 here: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.0.1-10.5-Leopard.dmg


get git 1.6.5 for osx 10.5 here: http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/detail?name=git-1.6.5.1-UNIVERSALbinary-leopard.dmg&can=2&q=


get skitch for osx 10.5+: http://get.skitch.com/skitch.zip

how to get ruby using macports: http://paulsturgess.co.uk/articles/46-using-macportsdarwinports-to-install-ruby-on-rails-mysql-subversion-capistrano-and-mongrel-on-mac-os-x


i'll try to update this when i find more stuff...  happy hunting!

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