Installing help on MacOSX - can't resolve dependency?

[David T.]

I'm not seeing any responses on this, so I guess I'll start the ball rolling. Bear in mind that I am not an expert, but another user like you.

First off, on my own 10.5.5 machine, I have gnucash-2.2.7 running, so something isn't right. 

As for Fink Commander, I stopped using it a while back, since a) it seemed to be slow, and b) the commands to use fink directly seemed simple enough. If you fire up a terminal window, you can tell fink to update itself by issuing the command(s): "fink selfupdate; fink index; fink scanpackages" After you do this, you should be able to issue the simple command "fink install gnucash2," answer a couple of questions and go away for a while (since it downloads and installs a boatload of dependencies). In theory, this is all you need to do to get gnucash running on Mac OS X.

It has been my experience though that while fink is supposed to handle all this effortlessly, I have always had to issue the command repeatedly to get through the process. What happens is you issue "fink install gnucash2", it tells you there are 177 dependencies, which it starts to download and compile. A long time later, it craps out with some compiler error. If you then issue "fink install gnucash2" again, it now tells you there are 85 dependencies. I repeat this process until a) the process completes, and I can run gnucash, or b) the number of dependencies sticks at some number, and then you can figure out more accurately what needs to happen.

Perhaps this will help you move forward on the installation. Gnucash is really good once you get it going!

David

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Kaia Landon <kaia.landon at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Kaia Landon <kaia.landon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Installing help on MacOSX - can't resolve dependency?
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 10:21 PM
> Hello,
> 
> I've just recently switched to using a Mac, and would
> like to use gnucash.
> At some point, I may be installing Windows too, but I'd
> really prefer it if
> I can get this running on the Mac side.  I hope there is
> something really
> obvious I'm missing, but neither a google search, nor
> searching the list
> archives has taken me anywhere.
> 
> I've been following the install instructions at
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation .  I am on
> an Intel Mac,
> running OS 10.5, trying to install the 2.x version of
> gnucash (I noticed
> that the most recent is 2.2.7, but the most recent Fink
> sees is 2.2.5,
> despite asking it to update, and to look for unstable
> builds).  I've been
> working with the Fink Commander install method (noted as
> functional as of
> Nov. 08), and am getting the following error after choosing
> Soure > Install:
> 
> 
> > Can't resolve dependency "gnome-keyring-dev
> (>= 2.24.1-1)" for package
> > "libgoffice-0.6-0.6.5-3" (no matching
> packages/versions found)
> > Exiting with failure.
> 
> 
> I do see that it has an earlier version of
> gnome-keyring-dev listed, and
> again, asking fink to update does not improve this.
> 
> If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to
> resolve this, I'd be
> very grateful!
> Thanks,
> Kaia
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