Installing GnuCash on Mac without X11 (using MacPorts)

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Dennis Muhlestein
<djmuhlestein at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Martin Preuss wrote:
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>> As someone else already wrote: The QT frontend is only needed for the
>> online banking setup wizard (and the matching debugger) when working with
>> GnuCash, so once online banking works for you you no longer need it (well,
>> at least as long as the online banking settings do not require changes).
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> I recently ran into this exact issue.  I was under the impression that GC
> had it's own frontend.  My online banking was already set up so I combiled
> aqbanking w/ out QT.  Online banking still worked fine but when I went to
> add an account at a later date.. woops.. no QT frontent for the Wizard any
> longer.  My opinion is to keep the QT frontend if you're installing GC.
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If you want to install GnuCash in native form (no X11) using MacPorts then
you can't use the qt3 port, since it depends on X11.

However, I wonder if it is possible to get aqbanking built with the MacPorts
port of qt3-mac, which might get us Qt and the setup wizard without adding
an X11 dependency.

I don't know if it is possible or how much patching would be needed, but
maybe it could work.


> -Dennis
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-Charles