newbie installing gnucash on mac osx 10.3.6
John Koreth
jkoreth at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 20:26:20 EST 2004
> Hi All:
> This is my first attempt to install a linux/unix program in mac OSX. I
> have no programming expertise or terminal prowess. Apologies in
> advance if this problem seems 'too simple'.
>
> I've been having a bunch of problems trying to compile/run gnucash
> v1.8.9 on my powerbook G4 (Mac OSX Panther 10.3.6),using fink/fink
> commander (0.5.3), Xcode developer/X11SDK, as per the gnucash
> website. After a couple of failed attempts to compile gnucash, I
> finally succeeded (took over 8 hours!). However, I cant get the
> application to run from X11. I've tried typing:
>
> gnucash
> tcsh: gnucash: Command not found.
>
> also:
>
> sw/bin/gnucash
> tcsh: /sw/bin/gnucash: Command not found.
>
> So, embarassingly, I cant seem to find where the installed version of
> gnucash is located, or the X11 command to run it!! Is this an issue
> with my using a prior version of Xcode tools (1.1)? Hopefully its
> something simpler. Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
> thanks
> john
>
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