Initial installation

[David Reiser]

OK. What OS X version?
Are you using the stable or unstable fink repositories? (There may be  
a problem with the dependency chain for the version of gnucash2 that's  
in stable, but I haven't been able to pin it down.)

A couple things to try:
1:
fink index -f
fink selfupdate-rsync
fink rebuild gnucash2

2:
fink index -f
fink configure (tell it yes when it asks you if you want to enable  
unstable)
fink selfupdate-rsync
fink update gnucash2

(the index command gets around a time-stamp problem that catches some  
people. The -rsync suffix on the selfupdate makes sure you're on a  
(usually) better updating scheme. You only need the -rsync once. After  
that selfupdate assumes you want to continue to use rsync)

The advantage of using unstable is you'll get the latest gnucash2 and  
gnome packages. The first time you build gnucash2 using unstable, it  
will take a lonnnnng time, since you'll be building a lot of the  
recent gnome packages. After the first time, usually updates don't  
take nearly as long.

If things still don't work, then the fink-users mailing list is a  
better place to ask, as the folks who monitor that list know a lot  
more than I do about fink's workings.

If you still have troubles, copying the error message that comes  
before the "Please visit..." is what is really going wrong. The  
failure of gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds really has nothing to do  
with gnucash. If we fix what fails before that, you'll never see this  
message anyway.

Dave
On Feb 10, 2009, at 2:06 PM, ronjr7333 at aol.com wrote:

> I installed gnucash2
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> To: ronjr7333 at aol.com
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:07 am
> Subject: Re: Initial installation
>
> Did you install the fink package 'gnucash' or the package  
> 'gnucash2'? You really want 'gnucash2'.
>
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:58 PM, ronjr7333 at aol.com wrote:
>
> > I am a new iMac user and a new Gnucash user. I believe that I have  
> > installed gnucash correctly w/fink, but when I tried to run  
> gnucash > for the first time, I got an error message that said  
> "Please visit > the GNOME Application Crash page for more  
> information". Clicking on > that message led to this message in the  
> terminal window: "Gnome-> Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds:  
> returning -1". > Suggestions?
> >
>

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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net