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Ubuntu 10.04 is the latest, to make it look like snow leopard mostly involves selecting the right theme and adding a dock. Some people also enable multitouch on their touchpad. What are you having difficulty with?
Install the above theme, then install AWN and go into AWN Manager to add apps and configure the dock to look 3D. Then, remove the bottom panel. You've just created a near-perfect replica of OS X.
And also: The version of Ubuntu that contains Linux Kernel 2.6.32 is 9.10. I'm sure it will work, but I have tried Mac4Lin with the Lucid Lynx (10.04) and the Maverick Meerkat (10.10 Alpha 1) to no avail.
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr awn-manager-bzr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package avant-window-navigator-bzr is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
avant-window-navigator-trunk
E: Package avant-window-navigator-bzr has no installation candidate
Installing Pidgin theme...
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Done!
The current Pidgin theme has been backed up as ~/Mac4Lin_v1.0/Backup/pidgin_backup.tar.gz
Please enable the Pidgin AWN plugin from within Pidgin and place a launcher for Pidgin on AWN
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Mac4Lin installation complete!
Please refer to the documentation for
advanced installation instructions
(for usplash, grub, tweaks etc.)
For best results, log off and log back
in for all changes to be applied
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Note - it is not advisable to blindly follow instructions, as you have noticed, it is best to understand the instruction in more general terms instead.
It is also not going to be possible to exactly duplicate a proprietary environment: it's proprietary - so to do so would break the law and is even a criminal offence in some jurisdictions.
The closest you get will be gnu/linux that is dressed in snow-leopard clothes. It's a penguin riding a water buffalo, but draped in a white sheet with black circles drawn on it. Nobody will mistake it for a leopard, at least not for long.
The practical approach is just to decide what it is about a UI that you want, and implement that. Don't worry about duplification.
I have tried Mac4Lin with the Lucid Lynx (10.04) and the Maverick Meerkat (10.10 Alpha 1) to no avail.
The theming method has changed in 10.04. There is some basic backwards compatibility but I don't know how tricky mac4lin gets.
You can set up mac-like window decorations in 10.04 (actually they are there by default, if dark.) adjust the colors, add the dock and a snow-theme background and you are a long way there.
The decoration shift is actually so canonical can experiment with notification icons in the title-bar, which may kill the mac-look if the feature turns out to be hard to disable.
Being stuck in 9.10 just to look like a mac seems a little extreme to me though.
Note - it is not advisable to blindly follow instructions, as you have noticed, it is best to understand the instruction in more general terms instead.
It is also not going to be possible to exactly duplicate a proprietary environment: it's proprietary - so to do so would break the law and is even a criminal offence in some jurisdictions.
The closest you get will be gnu/linux that is dressed in snow-leopard clothes. It's a penguin riding a water buffalo, but draped in a white sheet with black circles drawn on it. Nobody will mistake it for a leopard, at least not for long.
The practical approach is just to decide what it is about a UI that you want, and implement that. Don't worry about duplification.
Yes all this is for just testing purposes, neat to dress it up like this, I'll send a nice tutorial I found, here is what my desktop looks like....
The theming method has changed in 10.04. There is some basic backwards compatibility but I don't know how tricky mac4lin gets.
You can set up mac-like window decorations in 10.04 (actually they are there by default, if dark.) adjust the colors, add the dock and a snow-theme background and you are a long way there.
The decoration shift is actually so canonical can experiment with notification icons in the title-bar, which may kill the mac-look if the feature turns out to be hard to disable.
Being stuck in 9.10 just to look like a mac seems a little extreme to me though.
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