Installing GnuCash on Mac without X11 (using MacPorts)

[Frank Marion]

An important bit to add:
The following must be done from an account with administrative  
permissions. As a new user to OS X, I did not recognize the difference  
between "root" and and "administrator's account". Without admin  
abilities, you cannot sudo, and thus none of this will work. So long  
onto your admin account first.


On 2009-01-01, at 4:47 AM, Charles Day wrote:

> There have been a few questions recently about how to install  
> GnuCash on a
> Mac, and I just thought I'd show the steps that I used to get it  
> installed
> on mine (MacBook Pro, 10.5.6) in native form (no X11).
> I used MacPorts, and here were the steps I took, with a few short  
> notes.  If
> these don't work for you, however, I may not be much help as I'm a  
> newbie
> when it comes to MacPorts.
>
> # Use the latest MacPorts (1.7) so you can install GnuCash 2.2.8
> sudo port selfupdate
> # Some of the following bombed out on python stuff
> # Just rerun command (sometimes more than once) to proceed
> sudo port install dbus +no_x11
> sudo port install cairo +no_x11
> sudo port install pango +no_x11
> sudo port install gtk2 +no_x11
> sudo port edit aqbanking
> # Replace the line
> #   --with-frontends="cbanking g2banking qbanking"
> # with
> #   --with-frontends="g2banking"
> sudo port install gnucash +no_x11
> # Finally, you may need to insert the following line into  
> your .profile:
> eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`


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