Initial installation

[ronjr7333 at aol.com]

Dave, I'm using 10.5.6.  Earlier, I enabled unstable for fink.  I've tried both suggestions below and still get the same problem.  I'll try fink-users mailing list.  Thanks for your time.  Ron


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-----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 9:40 pm
Subject: Re: Initial installation







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 d
on'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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