Trouble Installing gnucash - OSX

[Tristan Chase]

Dear Nancy,

If you refer back to the "Mac OS X Install How-To" wiki, you will see 
that your very problem is addressed just below the instructions you 
followed (highlighted in red for your viewing pleasure):

Workaround for "dlcompat" error on launch:

The following note on the fink mailing list from Martin Costabel solved 
my problem at launch (same as Jamie's): {reproduced without 
permission...}
From: Martin Costabel <costabel at wa...>
  Re: gnucash (binary) problems on Fink 0.7.1  
  2004-09-24 16:44
Jamie Caplan wrote:
  {}
  > loading library: /sw/lib/libbonobox.2.dylib
  > loading library: /sw/lib/libbonobo.2.dylib
  > ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
  > ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc", message: "dlcompat: invalid handle"
The next one to load would have been libgtkhtml.20.dylib. Do you have
  the package gtkhtml-shlibs installed? {Re}install it.
--
  Martin

Try giving that a shot.

-Tristan

On Wednesday, Dec 22, 2004, at 18:23 America/New_York, N. Renfree wrote:

> After following the "Mac OSX Install How-To" directions on the  "Gnu 
> Cash
> Install" page, I get the following errors when trying to start Gnu 
> Cash from
> within the X11 terminal window.
>
> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc", message: "dlcompat: invalid handle"
>
> I followed the "A2" method. Can you help me get up and running?
>
> Thank you,
>
>     Nancy
>
>
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