dpkg problems

[Michael Mensinger]

hey there everybody.
So, I'm a new linux person, and I love my mac, so I want to open  
a .deb file on my mac, and install it.
But, apparently I need   dpkg   to do so.
I have an intel mac, 10.5.6.
Xcode 3.1.1
some third part apps that are in my /usr/local directory are "ntfs-3g"  
which allows the mac to see ntfs partitions,
and fuse stuff which i don't know anything about.

Menz-MacBook:~ Mike$ uname -a
Darwin Menz-MacBook.local 9.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov  
24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Menz-MacBook:~ Mike$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.5.6
BuildVersion:	9G55


so in the terminal, this is what happens:

Menz-MacBook:~ Mike$ sudo port install dpkg
Password:
--->  Configuring expat
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_expat/work/expat-2.0.1" && ./ 
configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned  
error 77
Command output: checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:  
C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gettext expat  
libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw gmake
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.


What do I do to get dpkg to install correctly, or to open these .deb  
files in mac?
Also, I'm running Ubuntu in VMware Fusion, so I have access to all the  
dpkg directories in there...
any help would be TOO great.


Michael Mensinger
Theta Xi Fraternity
Electrical Engineer
Bradley University
mmensinger at mail.bradley.edu
630-297-6979


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