No Help doc or Tutorial on Intel Mac OS X

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Feb 23 10:08:21 EST 2007


I don't know if David is on this list, so I'm forwarding it to
him because he's tied into the Fink community.

-derek

Quoting "D. L. Fuller" <dlfuller at clientandfuller.com>:

> I successfully compiled and installed both gnucash-2.0.4 and
> gnucash-2.0.5 on an Intel iMac running OSX 10.4.8.  Also yelp and
> gnucash-docs-2.0.1 were compiled and installed.
>
> But Help and the Tutorial do not work, both with an Error dialog of
> "GnuCash could not find the files for the help documentation".
>
> I tried compiling gnucashdocs-2.0.1 first as ./configure and then
> also as ./configure --with-g-wrap-prefix=/sw using Fink.
>
> In case it might provide some useful info, this is the error dialog
> from when I installed the gnucash2-docs binary with FinkCommander:
>
>    The following NEW packages will be installed:
>      gnucash2-docs
>    0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1  not
> upgraded.
>    Need to get 0B/9259kB of archives. After unpacking 11.3MB will be
> used.
>    Selecting previously deselected package gnucash2-docs.
>    (Reading database ... 64003 files and directories currently
> installed.)
>    Unpacking gnucash2-docs (from .../gnucash2-docs_2.0.1-1_darwin-
> i386.deb) ...
>    Setting up gnucash2-docs (2.0.1-1) ...
>    /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/gnucash2-docs.postinst: line 7:
> scrollkeeper-update: command not found
>    /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing gnucash2-docs (--configure):
>     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     gnucash2-docs
>    E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> And this dialog from when I tried installing the gnucash2-docs source
> again with FinkCommander:
>
>    The following package will be installed or updated:
>     gnucash2-docs
>    Reading buildlock packages...
>       All buildlocks accounted for.
>    /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-
> darwin-i386/gnome/gnucash2-docs_2.0.1-1_darwin-i386.deb
>    (Reading database ... 64240 files and directories currently
> installed.)
>    Preparing to replace gnucash2-docs 2.0.1-1 (using .../gnucash2-
> docs_2.0.1-1_darwin-i386.deb) ...
>    Unpacking replacement gnucash2-docs ...
>    Setting up gnucash2-docs (2.0.1-1) ...
>
> Any suggestions about how I resolve this would be appreciated.
>
> --Don Fuller
>
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