Gnucash on Snow Leopard

[David Reiser]

On Aug 29, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Steve Drach wrote:

> Installed Snow Leopard and fired up Gnucash.  Seemed to work until I  
> tried to get quotes, and found the button disabled.  So I checked  
> Finance::Quote by running "gnc-fq-dump" and discovered a couple  
> packages were missing.  Read the instructions at Fink and tried to  
> upgrade my existing installation to run with 10.6.  Nothing changed,  
> still the missing packages.  So, now I'm in the process of  
> rebuilding Gnucash and all it's dependencies from source.  What a  
> drag.
>
> As a lark, I tried the native OS/X version from ../sourceforge/ 
> gnucash/Gnucash-2.2.9.dmg.  Fired up fine, but the quotes button is  
> still disabled.  Sigh.  Also I notice the same problem I had with  
> Leopard, and that is when I enter data using the keyboard, the  
> characters aren't displayed until after I've moved the cursor out of  
> the field, not during the typing -- makes things weird.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> (1) how do I install just Finance::Quote so I can hopefully reenable  
> the get quotes functions, and

If you're adventurous, you could try installing just finance-quote- 
pm5100 from fink. Gnucash in fink is set up to force the use of the  
system perl. In 10.6, that's version 5.10, so you need the -pm5100  
versions of fink perl modules. I don't have 10.6 yet (copy sitting in  
a UPS depot about  10 miles away for the weekend), so I can't test a  
clean 10.6 build for gnucash2.

I just added the 5100 versions on Thursday, so I have no experience as  
to whether they work properly. They built with no errors, but I didn't  
have a convenient way to test them.

There's some question about whether x11 apps built in fink before 10.6  
will work properly when the system is upgraded with fink in place.  
Apple has once again really messed with x11, so there will be  
compatibility issues with many x11 apps.

>
> (2) how do I get it to display characters as I type them?
>
> I really don't want to reinstall and rebuild from source if I can  
> help it.  I just want Gnucash back, either native or X11.  Any and  
> all suggestions gratefully accepted.
>


Dave
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David Reiser
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