Easiest way to Gnucash 2.x on a mac?

[David Reiser]

The macports gnucash package has been without a maintainer for a few  
months. And there have been some guile and slib problems lately.  
Someone on gnucash irc indicated he's taking over the macports port,  
so maybe it's functioning well.

The downside of fink at the moment is the initial install of fink on a  
system 10.5 machine is via source bootstrap. Also, some of the gnome  
dependencies are getting long in the tooth there. But 'fink install  
gnucash2' will get you gnucash 2.2.4. (I'm the fink gnucash maintainer.)

I don't know of a way to associate file extensions with an x11 app,  
but there may well be one.

Dave
On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Beth Leonard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My babysitting co-op has started using GnuCash to track babysitting
> points.  (We used to do double-entry by hand!)
>
> Now the first secretary to own a Mac is coming up on her term, and
> I need to help her with the installation process.  I'm looking at
> the Wiki page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation
>
> Based on the discussion there, it looks like the best thing is to
> recommend to her that she use MacPorts, discussed at:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail
>
> Before I try to walk someone through the installation process who
> has trouble with the concept "Make a separate folder to put the
> data file in" I'd like to ask the list if this is the easiest and most
> up-to-date path to getting GnuCash 2.x running on a macintosh.
>
> Also, on a macintosh is there a way to associate the GnuCash program
> with a file type, so that double-clicking on the .gnc file will bring
> up GnuCash without having to open a terminal window and type it?
>
> (I'm a linux user myself, but I did test out the windows installation
> before moving the co-op over to a computerized method of tracking
> points.)
>
> Thanks!
> --Beth
> Beth Leonard
> http://www.LeonardFamilyVideos.com
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