Ciao Carlo,
It is my understanding that Mac OSX has something called fink which works much like Debian's apt-get.
yes it has. But I am not a guru of linux or unix (to say the least) and as a newcomer I used the installer provided kindly by Matt. For other programs I used fink, no problem. You can go and see some interesting pages at http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/
I have always been curious as to whether source packages from a Debian system could be ported easily through this method? Can you tell me a bit about it?
not much. I follow the instructions given in the site I give above to install the programs I need, mostrly for crystallography and protein NMR. Ciao, Stefano -- ____________________________________________ Stefano Ciurli Professor of Chemistry Department of Agro-Environmental Science and Technology University of Bologna Viale Giuseppe Fanin, 40 I-40127 Bologna Italy Phone: +39-051-209-6204 Fax: +39-051-209-6203 "Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza" Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Canto XXVI