gnucash 1.8 on a mac

[William Cadwallader]

I will try to find the threads.  I think you are right, terminal and  
X11 are two different environments.  Thanks for the feedback.

All the best.

On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:11 PM, David T. wrote:

> 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
>>
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