Basic Steps to Upgrade to GnuCash on Lion

[John Ralls]

On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:10 PM, Anthony Nelson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am currently running MacOS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), and GnuCash 2.4.4.
> 
> I'd like to upgrade to the Lion MacOS with as few complications as possible.
> My understanding from reading the blogs and bugzilla is that there was some
> sort of library problem with GnuCash on Lion.  I see that a library (libiconv)
> patch has been created.
> 
> My question is what is the best order for me to upgrade. Has the libiconv
> patch been included in the latest/greatest GnuCash? If I simply upgrade
> GnuCash will I get a version compatible with Lion?

The 2.4.7 bundle on Sourceforge is still the pre-Lion one.

We (the gtk mac maintianers) are still working on a couple of bugs, and someone just posted another compatibility problem to the gtk-osx-users list. I'm going to do a trial build of Gnucash today with the latest proposed set of gtk patches to if everything works out. If it does, I'll put it up on Sourceforge for those who've already upgraded. Unfortunately I can't guarantee that it will be stable enough until folks have run it around the block a few times. Unless Gnucash is something you can do without for a week or two, you're better off staying on Snow Leopard until we know that Gtk apps are stable on Lion.

Those planning to upgrade to Lion soon might find http://roaringapps.com/apps:table useful: It lists the compatibility status of several hundred programs.

Regards,
John Ralls