2.4.12 & 2.5.0 failed to install on Mac

[Michael Hendry]

On 25 Jun 2013, at 21:56, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> On 25 Jun 2013, at 18:09, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 25, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I'm using version 2.4.11 on my iMac, with Mac OS X 10.8.4).
>>>> 
>>>> I've downloaded later versions (2.4.12 and 2.5.0) but got an error message when I tried to install them, and didn't take it any further.
>>> 
>>> What error message?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>> 
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>> I have gone through the installation process for 2.5.0, and went through the instructions about paths, etc.
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>> I got stuck here:
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>> <Screen Shot 2013-06-25 at 20.24.48.png>
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> 
> Gnucash-2.5.0 has an error in the startup script, where line 13 says 
>   export PREFIX=/Library/Gnucash-2.4
> when it should say
>   export PREFIX=/Library/Gnucash-2.5
> 
> You can fix that in an editor if you like (the path is Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash), but it would be better to
> download Gnucash-2.5.2 *if you want to test the unstable release*.
> 
> I didn't see any problem with 2.4.12. The current version is 2.4.13, and I tested both of them just now and they started up just fine.

Thanks, John.

I've just re-tried my copy of 2.4.12, but it was reported to be damaged. so I downloaded, installed and ran 2.14.13 without a hitch.

I'll settle into this version first, before considering 2.5.xx again.

Michael