installation pb on Mac Os X

[Robyn Phillips]

on 2/10/04 19:49, p.pacaud wrote:

> Good morning,
> I have tried to install the Gnucash on my Imac G4 running mac
> os 10,3,5 and when I launch the soft from x11 I got the
> following message :


Hi Philippe,

I am not sure how to solve your problem, but here is how I managed to
install GnuCash (Thanks to Nigel's help):


> From: Nigel King <King at dircon.co.uk>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:49:25 +0100
> 
> Robyn or for others who do not have the time to compile,
> 
> In my experience compiling does take a long time so these instructions
> work for the quick install.
> 
> Yesterday I installed Gnucash without problems on a new machine with
> 10.3.4.
> 0. X11 is installed from Panther discs.
> 1. I installed fink from the binary distribution
> Fink-0.7.0-Installer.dmg
> 2. I installed finkcommander from the above distribution
> 3. I upgraded finkcommander per instructions
> 4. I ran Source->Selfupdate-rsync (not sure whether this was strictly
> necessary)
> 5. I selected gnucash and ran Binary->Install
> 6. Started X11
> 7. Applications->Customise->Add Item
> 7a. Name=gnucash
> 7b. Command=/sw/bin/gnucash
> 8. Start guncash either from pulldown or by typing guncash in xterm. In
> xterm error messages are displayed whereas they seem to be suppressed
> using the Application menu.
> 9. If in not in US Edit->Preferences->International select and apply
> your money and your dates scheme.
> 10. Enjoy
> 
> This installs the basic binary system currently at version at 1.8.8 you
> will probably want to install the documentation as well I did not do
> that. On 512kb link at work this all took about 2 hours with
> interruptions.
> 
> Newer versions take a lot more time and are described in other mails.
> 
> I think the above is everything! Memory is not all it used to be!
> 
> Nigel King
> 
> 
> On 5 Jul 2004, at 21:23, Robyn Phillips wrote:
> 
>> Can someone please tell me where I can find a pre-built version of
>> Gnucash
>> for the Apple Macintosh OSX (10.3.4)?
>> 
>> I have having troubles compiling the files myself, and I am hoping
>> that I
>> can leverage of someone's hard work.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Robyn
>>