Gnucash on Snow Leopard

[Charles Day]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Steve Drach <drach at itsit.org> wrote:

> Installed Snow Leopard and fired up Gnucash.  Seemed to work until I tried
> to get quotes, and found the button disabled.  So I checked Finance::Quote
> by running "gnc-fq-dump" and discovered a couple packages were missing.
>  Read the instructions at Fink and tried to upgrade my existing installation
> to run with 10.6.  Nothing changed, still the missing packages.  So, now I'm
> in the process of rebuilding Gnucash and all it's dependencies from source.
>  What a drag.
>
> As a lark, I tried the native OS/X version from
> ../sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-2.2.9.dmg.  Fired up fine, but the quotes
> button is still disabled.  Sigh.  Also I notice the same problem I had with
> Leopard, and that is when I enter data using the keyboard, the characters
> aren't displayed until after I've moved the cursor out of the field, not
> during the typing -- makes things weird.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> (1) how do I install just Finance::Quote so I can hopefully reenable the
> get quotes functions, and
>
> (2) how do I get it to display characters as I type them?
>

I'm running 2.2.9 from the .dmg on Snow Leopard and the typing is working
normally. I'm not sure what to suggest though.


>
> I really don't want to reinstall and rebuild from source if I can help it.
>  I just want Gnucash back, either native or X11.  Any and all suggestions
> gratefully accepted.
>

-Charles