if you use fink to install gnucash

[David Reiser]

The Great Gnome Update in fink has occurred. Taking pieces of Gnome  
from as old as 2.12 up to mostly 2.20, there're lots of upgraded apps.

The biggest changes for fink users of gnucash (via the fink package  
named gnucash2) is that now printing will work much better and you can  
edit account names without crashing gnucash.

One potential sticking point is that if you have custom defined check  
formats, you will have to create them again. Gnomeprint (the old) had  
its page origin (0,0) at the lower left of the page. GtkPrint (the  
new) has its origin at the upper left of the page.

This major update affects any fink user who has OS X 10.4 or 10.5 on  
their machine.

Since the change happened tonight, you may want to wait a day for the  
dust to settle. I have been using gnucash built against the new gnome  
dependencies for  many weeks. I don't expect problems as long as the  
fink mirrors keep things straight, and fink itself doesn't try to  
build the new versions out of order.

If things work as planned, issuing the following commands in a  
terminal window should get you gnucash built against the new gnome  
packages:
fink selfupdate
fink update gnucash2

Be prepared for the update step to take a long time-- maybe as long as  
the first time you built gnucash2. Fink will probably ask you if it is  
OK to upgrade another 100 packages along with gnucash2 (say yes!)  
Gnucash will still be version 2.2.5. (You could also do 'fink update- 
all' instead of 'fink update gnucash2'. It shouldn't matter for  
gnucash. If you use other fink programs update-all might be a better  
route.)

While not necessary, I upgraded the versions of guile and slib used by  
gnucash to 1.8 and 3b1 in the new gnucash2 packaging. It will take a  
few more minutes to do the update, but these are current versions  
instead of nearly ancient ones.

Dave
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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net