installing on OSX

[Derek Atkins]

Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

> On Monday 05 April 2004 3:08, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Actually, nowadays you can install the binary version.  Once you
>> get fink installed, just run:
>>
>>     apt-get install gnucash
>>
>> And it should pull down all the dependencies you need.  Note that you
>> should still get 1.8.x (x == 7 or 8) by this method.
>
> There is currently a problem with Debian unstable and gnucash, related to 
> libltdl3 - it's all in the gnucash archives and debian bug tracking system. 
> Until it's fixed, Debian users need to downgrade libltdl3 to v1.5-1 with:

Umm... Are you sure that this debian bug actually affects MacOSX
users?

> # apt-get install libltdl3=1.5-1
> before gnucash can run.
> If you're using apt on Mac OSX, it's likely that apt will use the same package 
> database and may install 1.5-4 which doesn't work with gnucash. The 1.6 
> release of libltdl3 does work but is still experimental.

Oh, good to know 1.6 fixes the problem...  Has there been some
debriefing on the actual issue with 1.5-4?

-derek

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