Error installing gnucash2.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Intel)

Brian Levy brian.levy.esq at rogers.com
Fri Dec 26 00:16:24 EST 2008


Today went through and finally got Fink to recognize Gnucash2 and install. 
After more than 3 hours it is still installing.  My recommendation david is
to leave 1.8.12 in the Fink inventory until such time as a version of 2 can
install as easily as 1.8.12.  I don't know if the app will even run after
mounting. It seems many are experiencing problems.  1.8.12 mounted
successfully in only a few minutes.  I'm sure version 2 is a better product
but if it can not be mounted easily and reliably then it will not be as
useful as an earlier version that does.  



David Reiser wrote:
> 
> After enabling unstable, you have to do 'fink selfupdate' or possibly  
> 'fink index -f; fink selfupdate-rsync' to kick it out of the mode it  
> ends up in from the fink installer dmg.
> 
> The selfupdate is needed to retrieve package descriptions after you  
> tell it "OK, I want unstable". I didn't find that step particularly  
> clear when I started out.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Brian Levy wrote:
> 
>>
>> I just tried gnucash2 and got a no file found. Reconfigured to allow  
>> unstable
>> and still no file found. Guess I've still got work to do in figuring  
>> it all
>> out.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Reiser wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 21, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Brian Levy wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm in no way a power user or even versed in OS X.  I've got 10.5.6
>>>> loaded on
>>>> an iBook and just recently found out about Fink and the terminal.
>>>> Shame
>>>> Apple does not publish information about the underlying system.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I went through the udates and new sync and index, etc. and then
>>>> installed
>>>> version 1.8.12 no problem and started a new company.
>>>>
>>>> Fink is interesting and I think I'll keep playing with it.  With
>>>> some luck
>>>> maybe at some point I'll try to mount one of the version 2s.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wow. I wish I knew how you got 1.8.12 to work reliably. Sometimes it
>>> does, and sometimes it doesn't. Are you using an Intel Mac?
>>>
>>> The real reason I'd like to know is to find out whether I ought to
>>> kill the 1.8.12 version in fink completely. It is three years out-of-
>>> date, and you can no longer move back and forth between the 1.8 and
>>> 2.2.x versions without wrestling with the data file. (You can go once
>>> pretty easily from 1.8 to 2.2, but going back to 1.8 with a 2.2
>>> modified data file is so much work, it isn't worth it.)
>>>
>>> In fink these days, you want to 'fink install gnucash2' to get the
>>> currently active version.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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