Installing help on MacOSX - can't resolve dependency?

Mon Dec 8 23:51:14 EST 2008

I too was having trouble with the fink install of gnucash but finally
succeeded by updating my X11 code to
X11-2.3.1  Try this link http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26593
and then doing
fink install gnucash2
It took a while to compile..but it finally worked.
 LJBusse

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Since you're getting an error associated with gnome-keyring-dev and
> libgoffice, you have a better chance of getting help from the fink
> lists than the gnucash list (in that it isn't a gnucash error yet).
>
> However, before you go there, try 'fink selfupdate-rsync' and then
> 'fink install gnucash2'. I'd recommend using the command line in a
> terminal window vs. fink commander. FC is extremely old at this point,
> and does have some bugs and lack of capacity for some newer situations.
>
> When first installing fink from their binary installer, you are stuck
> in what's known as "point" update mode. In that mode you can only get
> packages in the stable tree (gnucash2-2.2.5, in our case). You have to
> kick it once to really enable the unstable branch. After the first
> time, 'fink selfupdate' should be sufficient.
>
> The other possibility is that you don't have the crypto trees enabled.
> The libgoffice package that asks for gnome-keyring-dev >= 2.24.1 is a
> recent change that is not in the stable branch. So you seem to be
> getting some recent unstable tree packages, but not others. Weird.
>
> Dave
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Kaia Landon wrote:
>
> > Thanks again, but no such luck there either.  The wiki notes that the
> > Macports option does not work on Leopard.  I tried it anyway, just
> > in case,
> > and it failed miserably.
> > The fontconfig issue has continued, and it must be a problem with
> > Fink.  I'm
> > trying to decide between seeking help on one of the fink lists, or
> > just
> > abandoning ship for another program (perhaps Buddi or Cashbox,
> > although
> > neither seems as full-featured as Gnucash).
> > Thanks again,
> > Kaia
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:30 PM, <davelist at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> When I installed it on OS X under Tiger, I had better luck with
> >> macports
> >> than I did with fink. I haven't built it under Leopard with either
> >> macports
> >> or fink since my Tiger compiled version still runs under Leopard.
> >>
> >> You might try macports if you can't make any progress with fink.
> >>
> >> Dave (not the David who sent the earlier email in this thread)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Kaia Landon wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello again,
> >>>
> >>> David --  thanks so much for your tips.  I had tried running it
> >>> from the
> >>> terminal window, but hadn't tried all the things you mentioned.
> >>> I got closer (it actually starts installing), but still no ultimate
> >>> success.  I tried removing, and then reinstalling Fink, as I think
> >>> it
> >>> seems
> >>> likely that that is where the issue is.
> >>> Then I started the install again, and things seemed to be going
> >>> okay.  I
> >>> woke up this morning to this:
> >>>
> >>> sed: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.la: No such file or directory
> >>> ### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.1.UYuad9 failed, exit code 1
> >>> Removing runtime build-lock...
> >>> Removing build-lock package...
> >>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-fontconfig2-dev-2.4.1-104
> >>> (Reading database ... 4599 files and directories currently
> >>> installed.)
> >>> Removing fink-buildlock-fontconfig2-dev-2.4.1-104 ...
> >>> Failed: phase installing: fontconfig2-dev-2.4.1-104 failed
> >>>
> >>> Before reporting any errors, please run "fink selfupdate" and
> >>> try again {tried with same result}.  If you continue to have issues,
> >>> please
> >>> check to see if the
> >>> FAQ on fink's website solves the problem {addresses other issues
> >>> with
> >>> fontconfig, but not this one}.
> >>>
> >>> I also tried running "fink install fontconfig2-dev," which
> >>> ultimately
> >>> gives
> >>> me the same error.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again,
> >>> Kaia
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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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