[GNC] Gnucash on MacOS 12.5 ?

john jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Oct 24 13:20:10 EDT 2022



> On Oct 24, 2022, at 8:36 AM, David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 23, 2022, at 10:40 PM, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Oct 23, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Jesse Ayers <jesseayers2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I have been using GnuCash on Mac for several years.  I have purchased a new MacBook that runs MacOS 12.5 “Monterey.”  Can someone tell me if Gnucash will run on this new OS?  I haven’t been able to find an answer on the Gnucash site or in the text files that come with version 4.12.
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>> The only issue specific to Apple Silicon is that Finance::Quote doesn't work, see https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798456.
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>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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> It works for me on a Mac Studio (M1). Getting F::Q installed was a major pain, though. Eventually what worked for me was using xcode-select to install a second set of CommandLineTools in the non-xcode default location, make sure that was the path cpan was using, and then installing F::Q. 
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> I have no idea if there was a more sane way to point cpan to CommandLineTools in the usual XCode-related location. This is not the first time I’ve had two installations of CommandLineTools, but it doesn’t seem to interfere with what I use them for.

That gave me an idea. 
  sudo arch -x86_64 /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update
Just Works. Yay!

I've updated the wiki page.

Regards,
John Ralls



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