GNU Cash Install Issues on MAC OS 10.5 Leopard

[Mark Manning]

Hi Guillaume,  Thanks very much for your help and advice.  Last night  
I was able to get Fink started with the download and compile of  
gnucash2 and it completed without any apparent problems.  Once that  
was finished I started gnucash and the program started just fine.   
This was around 3AM after about 6 hours of crunching.

I closed down the machine and logged in again this morning with my  
normal user login and I cant get gnucash to run in any terminal or  
xtem window.   I'm sure there is some environment that needs to be set  
but I dont know what it is.  I cant find a .profile file on my system  
under any account and wouldn't know what to put in it at this point.

Do you have any suggestions on how to get this started under a user  
account, I'm quite confident that it is installed and compiled as it  
ran last night but I dont know how to start it again.

Cheers,

Mark.


On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Guillaume Lessard wrote:

>
> On 08-04-03, at 18:01, Mark Manning wrote:
>> Hi List,  I'm having major problems trying to install GNU Cash onto
>> MAC OS 10.5 Leopard.
>
> The fink version currently works without a problem. You just need to  
> be patient and let it build overnight. It requires editing the file / 
> sw/etc/fink.conf by replacing the line that begins with "Trees" with  
> the following:
>
> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/ 
> crypto
>
> (in other words, add "unstable/main unstable/crypto" to the tail end.)
>
> Thereafter, it is a simple as issuing the command "fink install  
> gnucash2".
>
> Macports is, unfortunately, a moving target by design. For the past  
> several months, getting gnucash from macports has been difficult and  
> unreliable. If you just want it to work, use fink. If you want to  
> use macports anyway, I can give you more hints for success.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Guillaume Lessard
> glessard at tffenterprises.com
>