[linas@linas.org: Re: Gnucash on macosx]

[Adam Ek]

On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 06:05 AM, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:

> Adam Ek wrote:
>
>> I installed gnucash on my Powermac in April. Between downloading all 
>> of the dependencies and compiling it took most of a day. Less than 
>> half an hour at the keyboard, but a lot of leaving the computer alone 
>> and waiting and then going back to check for error messages and 
>> prompts.
>
> It seems that many of the dependencies of gnucash package in
> fink are more or less unnecessary. Why on earth are tcl/tk and python
> needed, for example? I have a Mac laptop with only a slow and small 
> 30GB disk and I really don't like the idea of having to compile 
> hundreds of
> megabytes of stuff just to get one application working :(
>
> And...my installation attemps are failing because of this:
>
>   curl -f -L -s -S -O 
> ftp://ftp.us.postgresql.org/odbc/versions/src/psqlodbc-7.2.5.tar.gz
>   curl: (7) Connection refused
>   ### execution of curl failed, exit code 7
>   Downloading the file "psqlodbc-7.2.5.tar.gz" failed.
>
> Does anyone know how to change the url to some mirror site?
> (Or better yet, how to fink-install gnucash without psql support
> which I don't need or want.)
>

I don't know why in the world there are that many dependencies. I only 
use gnucash, but my fink directory is 1.3GB.

One tip. Switch fink back to stable and try downloading most of the 
dependencies that way. Then switch back to unstable, and download 
gnucash.