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

[Bryan Beau Grant]

Yes, that is what I also determined since I wrote this and verified all 
the rc files and so on.

Strange.

Beau

On Mar 28, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Michael Jensen wrote:

> 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
> ____________________________
> Mike Jensen
> KF6WQH
> mailto://michael_jensen@bigfoot.com
>
> 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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Bryan "Beau" Grant
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