gnucash 1.8 on a mac

[David T.]

William--

I'm by no means an expert, but it has been my experience that the base Mac
terminal and the X11 terminal are different environments, and setting a path in
Terminal has no effect on the X11 environment. A search at google yields a
couple of threads about how to manage the environments for both, but that's
beyond me. You set the X11 path using an export command. 

--- William Cadwallader <CaptCadwallader at GBIS.com> wrote:

> See bottom of message.  I can get gnucash up and running, but I am  
> still missing something.
> 
> This is the ls -l /sw/bin/gnucash result.
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ ls -l /sw/bin/ 
> gnucash
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  141 Mar 23  2006 /sw/bin/gnucash
> 
> This is the result from the $PATH command.  Why isn't /sw/bin in the  
> path.  It was the other night.  Things that go bump in the night.
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ $PATH
> bash: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin: No such file or  
> directory
> 
> 
> Well, I went to terminal on the MAC, which is a bash shell and typed  
> in $PATH.  THis is what I got:
> 
> Last login: Fri Oct 27 23:19:32 on ttyp1
> Welcome to Darwin!
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ echo $PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> Why does one show the /sw/bin and /sw/sbin and the other not?  Talk  
> about being over my head.  Could it be that one is showing the root  
> path and the other is showing the user, meaning CAPTAIN cadwallader$  
> path?
> 
> Fool that I am, I then tried:
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ SET $PATH =   
> $PATH:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> bash: SET: command not found
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> Then without the SET:
> 
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ PATH =   
> $PATH:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> bash: PATH: command not found
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> Then with a $
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ $PATH =   
> $PATH:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> bash: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin: No such file or  
> directory
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> then:
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ echo $PATH
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ export PATH=$ 
> {PATH}:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ echo $PATH
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> I now have the /sw/bin and /sw/sbin in the path command in X11.
> 
> so I now try to run gnucash from X11.
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ gnucash
> (0.0061s) [list] -*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 --> 64
> (0.0011s) [load] -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 -->  
> 0x4fdba0
> (0.0175s) [load] -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 -->  
> 0x4fe500
> (0.0118s) [load] -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 -->  
> 0x4febb0
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> Eureka!!!!!!!
> 
> gnucash appears!
> 
> I try it a second time.  I never believe good luck, I have lived in  
> Nevada too long.  It appears again.  I quit X11.  I then reopen X11  
> and type in guncash.
> 
> and I get:
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ gnucash
> bash: gnucash: command not found
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> command not found!
> 
> So try again with the sudo command:
> 
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ gnucash
> bash: gnucash: command not found
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$ sudo export  
> PATH=${PATH}:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
> Password:
> sudo: export: command not found
> william-cadwalladers-power-mac-g4:~ CAPTAINcadwallader$
> 
> It seems obvious to me that you are correct.  The problem is the path  
> command.  The question is how to make changes in the X11 term so that
> they are permanent.  I now have a work around, just type export PATH=$ 
> {PATH}:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin and then gnucash when I want to run the program.
> However this seems to be  a clunky work around.  Any mac X11 experts  
> out there?  Looks like a trip to the bookstore to find an O'Reilly  
> book is in my future.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> PS, sorry to bother you with all of this.
> 
> 
> On Oct 28, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > ls -l /sw/bin/gnucash
> 
> William Cadwallader
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