[Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #1581 - 9 msgs

[Michael Jensen]

That's what I get when I run gnucash from a MacOS terminal window. Try 
it from an xterm in Darwin. Something in the X system still thinks the 
OSX and Darwin are separate computers and for security reasons don't 
allow Terminal to open X windows.
Hope this helps...
  MJ
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Mike Jensen
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On Mar 28, 2004, at 14:38, Bryan Beau Grant wrote:

> Martinm
>
> That did the trick. Seems obvious in retrospect. I guess I am still a 
> learner!
>
> Now the display is not coming up. It reads
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> I will try to reinstall xDarwin, as I assume it is related to that as 
> that is the display.
> Let me know if you have a better plan.
>
> A bientot,
>
> Beau
>
>
>> I have read the FAQ's. I have gotten tons of helpful advice. I just  
>> want someone to admit that GnuCash just does not work on Mac, then i  
>> will quietly go away and go on and buy someting from the store. If it 
>>  does work, will someone PLEASE HELP?
>
> Just for the fun of it (I don't use gnucash), I ran
>
>   sudo apt-get install gnucash
>
> and it downloaded and installed 18 packages, which took altogether 85 
> seconds. Gnucash seems to work correctly (I didn't have the patience 
> to finish the configuration and to discuss my finances with 
> wise-cracking wizards or druids, but some kind of account sheet did 
> come up).
>
> []
>> dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec dpkg-split to see if it's part of a 
>>  multiparter: No such file or directory
>> dpkg: error processing  
>> /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gal19-shlibs_0.19.2-23_darwin-powerpc.deb  
>> (--unpack):
>>  subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
>
> When this came up on the lists, it was usually blamed on a wrong PATH 
> setting. Since you are using FinkCommander, you would need to check 
> whether the PATH in Preferences->Environment contains 
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
>
>
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