Fwd: installing on OSX

[Tristan Chase]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Victor van Reijswoud <victor at umu.ac.ug>
> Date: Sat Apr 3, 2004  09:00:30 America/New_York
> To: Tristan Chase <ubu69 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: installing on OSX
>
> Dear Tristan,
>
> Thank you fir the help. I will have to download Fink commander first.
> Also, can you tell me what version of GNUCash I should download? When 
> going to site I see several.
> Since I am working in Africa, where internet connections are really 
> bad, I prefer to download the right version immediately.
>
> I think I will get back to you in the course of the week for more 
> advise.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Victor
>
> Prof. Victor van Reijswoud (PhD)
> Uganda Martyrs University - Nkozi
> PO Box 5498 Kampala - UGANDA
> Phone: +256 77 908490
> On Apr 3, 2004, at 4:14, Tristan Chase wrote:
>
>>
>> On Monday, Mar 29, 2004, at 09:55 America/New_York, Victor van 
>> Reijswoud wrote:
>>
>>> I may have not looked well enough, but I cannot find the 
>>> installation procedure for GNUCash on OSX. Can someone help me with 
>>> a HOWTO to do this?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Victor
>>
>> I have gone through the process of installing GnuCash on OS X and can 
>> point you in the right direction. First, some questions:
>>
>> Do you have the following installed:
>>
>> 1. X11
>> 2. fink
>> 3. gcc or compiler of your choice
>>
>> If you already have fink, I would highly recommend getting Fink 
>> Commander (http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/).
>>
>> If you have all of the above, you are ready for the next step, which 
>> is installing the packages.
>>
>> If you do not have the above, you will need them to compile, install 
>> and run GnuCash. I found that fink itself took about 1GB of disk 
>> space. You may need another 1GB for the packages required by the 
>> program (I found out the hard way by exceeding the capacity of  my 
>> little 10GB hard drive).
>>
>> If you need help with any of these steps, just ask. I have done all 
>> of these things myself with little experience.
>>
>> -Tristan Chase
>>