OSX Binaries for GnuCash?

[David Reiser]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Frank Marion wrote:

> On 2008-12-11, at 2:34 PM, David T. wrote:
>> I agree with Derek about fink being easy.
>
> The thing is that I've never been able get it to work. Fink doesn't
> find the packages, even when I have unstable checked on. MacPorts
> doesn't work, or at least the instructions that I've found aren't
> complete enough for me to follow it step by step and get it installed.
> I find it frustrating when people tell me how easy this or that
> package is to use. If it were that easy, I would not have asked
> someone to upload one for me. What tutorial have you used to
> successfully help you get there?
>
> --
> Frank Marion
> lists at frankmarion.com

The fink-beginners mailing list has a couple very skilled folks who  
are very patient about explaining how to fix things, especially if you  
copy and paste the error message that appears when "things don't work".

One of the common things that happen is that fink commander doesn't  
work too well with system 10.5. You're really better off using the  
command line in a Terminal window.

The next thing that can go wrong is you have to run 'fink selfupdate- 
rsync' once after you install fink from their disk image file, or you  
won't ever get the unstable package descriptions, though gnucash 2.2.5  
is available in the stable tree. (Since you'll have to compile it  
anyway - no stable binary available yet-- I do recommend enabling  
unstable and building the latest version.)

There are several other fairly common glitches with getting fink  
running from scratch which I don't understand as well as the gurus.  
They are very helpful at resolving them.

Dave
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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net