the GNU packages that I need most seriously on my “finkified” Macs

• https://wiki.jochen.hayek.name/w?title=The_GNU_packages_that_I_need_most_seriously_on_my_finkified_Macs – this is where this text should actually live and get maintained

CAVEAT!!! Read carefully beforehand:

• http://finkproject.org/download/
• http://finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php

I.e. install

• Xcode Tools/Developer Tools,
• Xcode Command Line Tools,
• and X11 !

This message wants to tell you, that the Xquartz X11 distribution is not installed (it is not something, that fink can do for you):

Can’t resolve dependency “x11-dev” for package “poppler46-shlibs-0.26.2-3” (no matching packages/versions found)

$ fink install coreutils-default grep xmlstarlet pwgen saxon wget
$ fink install image-exiftool-pm # extracts date+time from JPEG files
$ fink install xpdf # which includes pdfinfo; extracts date+time from PDF files
$ fink install ghostscript # needed by emacs doc-view (?!?)

Note 2019-10-21: I fail installing wget, because it  depends on some  uncompilable gpgme11. (Solved < 2020-05-27.)