Installing on Mac

[Colin Law]

On 8 February 2014 14:54, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2014, at 3:55 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to help a friend install GC on a Mac PPC running OSX
>> 10.4.11.  On http://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml there is a link for
>> a PPC download but it does not seem to work, and when I look in
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.1/
>> there is an intel download but not a PPC one.
>>
>> I tried with 2.4.15 (I think, but it might have been 2.4.13) but the
>> PPC version there said that it was not compatible with that version of
>> the OS when I tried to run it.
>>
>> I have no previous experience of Macs and my friend is a basic level
>> computer user.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
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> As I said at the time of the release, I had a disk crash with my PPC mac. I got that fixed only to have the microfuse for the display backlight blow, so it was down for over a week, and it was time to leave for a conference before I got the build completed. I'll be back tomorrow and get the build finished and uploaded by monday.
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> All that said, Derek is right: WebKit, even the ancient version shipped with GnuCash, uses 10.5 API and won't run on 10.4. The last version which ran on 10.4 was 2.2.9.

OK, understood.  Thanks John and Derek.
I didn't remember your comment about the disk crash as at the time I
was not the slightest bit interested in Macs :)
I will have to see if I can get her to buy a new machine and use Ubuntu instead.

Thanks again

Colin

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> Regards,
> John Ralls
>