installation

[Andrew Greig]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 13:56 -0400, Josh Sled wrote:
> (This really belongs on gnucash-user, so I've CC'ed it there instead.)
> 
> "Anna Ash" <jaash2000 at gmail.com> writes:
> > I can't figure out how to install this program.  I downloaded it and found
> > it was some achieved/zipped files and got them unzipped but can't seem to
> > locate an install file.  Any information would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm assuming you're referring to GnuCash-2.2.0.
> 
> If you're on Windows, you'll want to download and run the executable at
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-2.2.0-setup.exe>.
> 
> If you're on unix, you'll want to wait until your distribution/vendor offers
> a pre-built package of Gnucash 2.2, and install it using your distribution's
> package manager.
> 
> I'm not sure what you downloaded, since you didn't identify it at all, but if
> it's the sources, then it should have an INSTALL at the top.   If you have
> the sources, it's possible to compile the software yourself (on either unix
> or Windows) ... more information on that can be found at
> <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building>.
> 

Hi Josh,
I also tried to get gnucash to run under XP SP2 and no result. This is
not a mission critical thing for me as I run gc under Mandriva 2007.1.
But it is of interest because I distribute OpenOffice.org to those who
are bandwidth challenged, and I include a lot of extra Open-Source
software for their benefit, because there is room on the disks.

I had thought of including gc as well, but I will wait until I can load
it "as a Windows user expects".  I think that a good idea for those who
want to have Linux and Windows is to run gc in Linux, and run a VM
sandbox for Windows for their other activities.
-- 
Yours faithfully



Andrew Greig
Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org