Building GNU Typist for Mac OS
GNU Typist is a great source for learning touch typing. You can install it on your own at your Mac. Just follow the steps.
1. Get the source of typist
# make sure to have all sources inside ~/opt/src mkdir -p ~/opt/src cd ~/opt/src curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.5.tar.gz tar zxf gtypist-2.9.5.tar.gz
2. Get the source of ncurses
curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz tar zxf ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
3. Get the source of typespeed
curl -O http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/typespeed-0.6.5.tar.gz tar zxf typespeed-0.6.5.tar.gz
4. Create place where you want to have all the stuff
mkdir -p ~/opt/usr
5. Build ncurses
# pay attention to --enable-widec cd ~/opt/src/ncurses-6.1 ./configure --enable-widec --with-shared --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/ make; make install
6. Build GNU Typist
cd ~/opt/src/gtypist-2.9.5 export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/opt/usr/lib" export CFLAGS="-I$HOME/opt/usr/include" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/ make; make install
7. Run gnutypist
cd $HOME/opt/usr/bin ./gtypist
8. Build typespeed
cd ~/opt/src/typespeed-0.6.5 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/usr/ make; make install
9. run typespeed
cd $HOME/opt/usr/bin ./typespeed