Quick Q's regarding MacOSX install of Gnucash 2.0.2

[Gilles Gariepy]

Doug,

Thanks for the info. Just so you know, I followed the well laid out
instructions for installing via Fink by Michael Elliot. When I look at the
current Fink instructions in the Wiki, my eyes just glaze over. That is why
I prefer the MacPorts route. ;>).

I am much more worried about upgrading now that I have finally completed
migrating 13 years of multi-currency Quicken data...I don¹t want top have to
go through that again.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

Regards
Gilles


On 11/17/06 10:32 AM, "Doug Latornell" <doug-gnucash at sadahome.ca> wrote:

> Hi Gilles;
> 
> I should also have mentioned that before I did any of the build with fink or
> macports, I intsalled the latest XCode package from the Apple Developers site.
> 
> Doug
> 
> On 11/17/06, Doug Latornell <doug-gnucash at sadahome.ca> wrote:
>> Hi Gilles;
>> 
>> I did several builds of 2.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (PPC) earlier this week.
>> This was my 1st go at GnuCash, so I can't answer your question about removing
>> 1.8.  As for Fink, I actually started with it (because I already had it
>> installed).  I got a build using the unstable tree, but I felt that it built
>> a bunch of stuff above and beyond Gnucash's lengthy dependency list.  And,
>> probably due to my own mistake, I didn't get OFX and Finance::Quotes enabled.
>> 
>> I decided to start over again with MacPorts, but kept the Fink install around
>> in case the MacPorts one didn't work.  So, yes, they can co-exist peacefully.
>> To get OFX and Finance::Quotes under MacPorts you need to do:
>> 
>> sudo port install gnucash +enable_quotes +enable_ofx +enable_hbci
>> 
>> Starting from a freshly installed MacPorts (i.e. none of the dependencies to
>> speak of installed) the build took about 12 hr on my iBook G4.  I used the
>> port -v option so that there was a fairly constant stream of stuff going by
>> in an xterm window that gave me the warm, fuzzy feeling that progress was
>> being made. 
>> 
>> The resulting install works fine with the exception that the docs will not
>> show up from either the help menu, nor from yelp.  There is also come
>> messiness in the price editor that I just logged as a bug (
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376298
>> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376298> ), but it doesn't cause
>> data corruption as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> As I said, this was my first use of Gnucash, and I'm very impressed with the
>> program (but you obviously already know that it's good...)
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> 
>> Doug
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/17/06, Gilles Gariepy < gariepy.g at videotron.ca
>> <mailto:gariepy.g at videotron.ca> > wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I am currently running Gnucash 1.8 via Fink. I would like to upgrade to
>>> version 2.0.2 but it appears that I either can't do it via Fink or that it
>>> seems rather complicated. I am not a developer :< so I really don't have the
>>> background to understand all of the stuff required.
>>> 
>>> It appears I can do this rather simply with MacPorts. My questions are:
>>> 
>>> * Do I need to uninstall the older version of Gnucash first?
>>> * Do I need to uninstall Fink?
>>> * Should I backup my data first ;>)?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Gilles
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