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There are three different ways of installing GRAMPS on Mac OS X. The linked pages provide step by step instructions.
=== Fink MacPorts X11 version ===MacPorts is a packaging system for automatically downloading, compiling and installing Unix software on Mac OS X. It makes the process simple and almost entirely automatic.
Installing GRAMPS as an X11 application is achieved by downloading and installing the packages on which GRAMPS depends using software called fink. The process is a bit longwinded, but most of the features of GRAMPS work, and drag and drop and mouse clicks work very well. If you choose this route, you may be able to get some help both from the GRAMPS community and the fink community. Detailed instructions can be found here: See [[Mac OS X finkMacPorts]]on the installation process.
=== MacPorts Fink X11 version ===Similar to MacPorts, see [[Mac OS X fink]].
MacPorts === Native version ===A native version of GRAMPS is essentially a similar type of program to finkunder development. This version will not require X11 and so will look more 'Mac like' and integrate better with the OS X desktop.
See [[Mac OS X MacPorts]] on the installation process. === Native Mac OS X ===At present (June 2009) there is no downloadable simple installable package for the Mac.  There is however currently an ongoing project to deliver a click-to-install packaged GRAMPS for Mac, but at the moment it has to be built by yourself. The new project is described at [[Mac gtk-osx port]]. Patches to GRAMPS to fix some of the issues are being included for version 3.1.3/3.2.x. However it is still a work in progress and not recommended for daily use. There is no binary release so you will have to compile it yourself from source.
An older attempt on PPC mac is described [[native Mac OS X|here]]
=== Questions ===
==== Am I ready for X11Are there any other options? ====
Installing with either fink or MacPorts is simpler that installing as a native application, but the GRAMPS windows have an X11 appearance. To see whether you can get use to this appearance, you could download and install [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] which is very easy to do and will show you what an X11 application looks like. Installing OpenOffice will not be wasted, because you will need it to be able to open reports from GRAMPS.  Another option is to download [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice], which is a port of OpenOffice using Java so that it looks like a native Mac OS X application.=====(1) Virtual Server=====
==== Are Another option is to install a virtual server on your Mac (like VMware Fusion), create a virtual machine running Linux, and install GRAMPS in there any other options? ====. A Gnome based distro like Ubuntu would be a good choice for the Linux system.
=====(12) Virtual ServerCompile GRAMPS from source without a package manager =====
Yet another option is to install a virtual server on your Mac (like VMware Fusion)If you have all of the dependent libraries installed already, create a virtual machine running Linuxthis should be possible. Just download the .tar.gz file, unpack it, and install GRAMPS in there. A Gnome based distro like Ubuntu would be a good choice for follow the Linux systemINSTALL instructions.
=====(23) After already having all the dependencies installedBootcamp =====
If you have all of the dependent libraries Bootcamp installed already, this should be straightforward. Just download you can use the .tar.gz file, unpack it, and follow the INSTALL instructionsWindows version of GRAMPS.
==== Is this going to be too complicated for me? ====
The process X11 MacPorts option is not very straightforward, and there will almost certainly be problems like unresolved dependencies, files not found on the various servers, download of files just stalls indefinitely and questions asked by scripts to which you don't know the answerstraight forward. Nevertheless, installation is possible and I think gramps is worth the trouble. I suggest you have a look at the instructions for [http://www.captnswing.net/2004/02/12/nicotine.html|Installing SoulSeek] - this is a similar process, but actually ''SoulSeek'' is easier because it is fully integrated into the fink process. This might give you some idea of the requirements for perseverance. If you don't think you could install ''SoulSeek'' then you certainly won't The other options may be able to install Grampsmore complicated. '''The converse is not true'''
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