Installing on iMac

[Michael Ellenbogen]

Thank you John.
I’m sorry you encountered this new problem… must be frustrating as a developer.
I eagerly await the solution so I can get started with my accounting.
Best
Michael




On 1/6/16, 12:47 AM, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 6:17 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:18 PM, Michael Ellenbogen <michael at eonscreative.com> wrote:
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>>> Thank you John and David.
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>>> John, the version that would not install was downloaded from GnuCash.org link early in December and was Gnucash-Intel-2.6.9-1.dmg
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>>> Today I deleted that file and downloaded the latest Gnucash-Intel-2.6.10-1.dmg
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>>> I checked my Security & Privacy:
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>>> I DOUBLE-CLICKED THE “Gnucash” icon:
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>>> And this is what happened: 
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>>> So, in this case, do you recommend going back to SECURITY & PRIVACY and selecting ALLOW APPS DOWNLOADED FROM “Anywhere”?
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>> You shouldn't run GnuCash from the dmg, but I wouldn't expect that you'd get a security error from that.
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>> No, I recommend that you first drag GnuCash to your /Applications folder and try again. If that still puts up the error message you can control-click on Gnucash and select open from the menu. The warning dialog box will then give you the option to run it anyway.
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>I just tested on my laptop and got the "unidentified developer" error dialog. Something's up. I googled and found http://furbo.org/2015/07/23/code-signing-in-el-capitan/ and following the investigation outlined there found a dangling symlink in the bundle.
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>Which is interesting. Codesign on El Cap happily signed the bundle without complaint but El Cap considers the signature invalid. 
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>So I'll see what I can do to fix the bogus link and anything else that the security checker whines about and add another QA step to my release process.
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>Regards,
>John Ralls
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