GnuCash on windows - Instructions for giving it a try

Englisch, Volker (NIH/NCI) [C] volker at mail.nih.gov
Thu Oct 5 18:47:19 EDT 2006


During my first attempt I was able to get a bit further into the process
but now I am  getting stuck during the installation of MinGW.  
I've used several different mirrors but I get the same error message no
matter which one I use.  
I guess nobody else has ran into this?


  $ ./install.sh

  ############################################################
  ###  Wget
  ############################################################
  already installed.  skipping.

  ############################################################
  ###  MSYS DTK
  ############################################################
  msys dtk already installed.  skipping.

  ############################################################
  ###  MinGW
  ############################################################
  !!! Install g++ !!!
  !!! When asked for an installation path, specify c:\Gnucash\mingw !!!

...

  Create folder: C:\Gnucash\MinGW
  Extract: C:\Gnucash\MinGW\installed.ini... 100%
  Extracting gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
  untgz::extract -d 'C:\Gnucash\MinGW' -z
'c:\Gnucash\downloads\gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz' 
  tgz_extract: bad header checksum
  Error: Failure reading from tarball.


Thanks

Volker Englisch




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