New Mac OSX rookie

[Derek Atkins]

Hi.

Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am attempting to get GNUCash up on Mac OSX.  I looked at the archive
> of this list and there are only two hits for "mac osx".  I've started
> a VERY rough journal of my adventures of trying to get GNUCash to
> compile on the Mac.  You can see my adventures here:
> 
> http://www.easesoftware.net/GNUCash_project.html

  GnuCash works great on MacOS X.  Try:

        go to fink.sourceforge.net
        download and install fink
        fink updateself
        pull in the (from-unstable) gnucash-1.8.4 specification
        fink install gnucash
        wait about 10-24 hours for it to build everything --
                be sure to check back periodically in case it needs
                user input.

> I am hoping to keep the journal and eventually clean it up so that
> other Mac users can follow my footsteps.  But if someone else has
> already done this, I'm happy to follow them.  I may, in fact, start
> completely over from scratch.  I spent a weekend about a month ago on
> this.  At that time, the GNUCash mailing lists had a message that said
> the lists were broken.  I was doing my work without CVS or fink.  It
> may be much easier to use both of those in the process.

Uh, yea... Do it with fink...

> My goal is to move GNUCash towards business applications.  I need
> payroll and inventory.  So far, I have not seen those listed on the
> features.  I am curious first to see if GNUCash is closer to a real
> accounting system or if it follows too closely in Quicken's footsteps.
> I'm planning on using the DB backend.  I even have fantasies of
> hooking all this up to a web based store to sell my photography.

GnuCash 1.8 already does have some small business features, however it
does not have payroll or inventory.  It is a real accounting system
(although the UI tries to make life simple) however adding those
features is not a simple "change some SQL".  Also, the postgres
backend does not support the business features at this time, so,
unfortuately, you can't do what you want at this point in time....

> So... in short, if anyone can help me with bring up of GNUCash on Mac
> OSX, I would love to hear from them.
> 
> Thank you,
> Perry Smith

Enjoy..

-derek

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