A rant of sorts. Here is what I hate about Unix-related stuff. It’s the same old story. You get suckered into the sugary narrative about how bloated and fat GUI stuff is and get sold on the power and flexibility of command-line stuff. You decide to take the plunge, although your knowledge of Unix is, like mine, extremely thin—you’ve only used on a rare, as-needed basis. But you decide to go for it, sold on the “power and flexibility” business. Then, as soon as you start following the super-simple installation instructions, you feel like a total idiot, because the instructions leave out the most basic stuff.

So, could someone please tell me where to put the “remind-03.00.22” folder once it’s been decompressed and sitting on my desktop? Could you then tell me what directory I should navigate to in Terminal before executing those 3 super-simple Unix commands? Could you also tell me why when I enter “./configure” I get:

checking for gcc… no checking for cc… no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

Wow—that was so simple! (Could’ve entered 100 reminders in iCal by now.) And I don’t want to use an installer version because I want to learn something. Thanks.