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How can I install GNUCash on Leopard?
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Sorry for being confusing by talking about the hard way.
No problem, couple of quick question.
1. I installed xcode, then installed Fink. It took about 10-15 minutes. Lots of things were going on in terminal I have not idea what. Is this normal?
2. Where do I run 'fink selfupate' and 'fink install gnucash' ?
3. Any ideas why there isnt an official release of gnucash for OSX? They have an install for Windows, seems like they would have one for OSX.
Yep that is the code compiling.
In the terminal as with all Unix type applications.
There is. The source code, as with all the other Unix systems it supports.
yep, i tried the terminal. It says
-bash: fink: command not found
Do I have to run this from a particular directory? I didnt restart my system after installing fink, am I suppose to?
Did you run the shell script after you installed Fink as per the instructions on the site?
I forgot to run
/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
After doing this, I did
fink selfupdate
I then did
fink install gnucash
I realized after I did this that I was suppose to do gnucash2. Th terminal has been running for over 30 min now. Is it compiling? If so, what? Will I have any trouble if I run fink install gnucash2 after this finishes? To add to my previous question about Gnucash being available for OSX, why doesnt the Gnucash developers pre compile a Gnucash for OSX so everyone doesnt have to do this?
Because they are probably using Linux or other Unix variants and don't have access to Macs. That's the joy (and the curse) of the Unix world. Software is generally passed around in source code form for historical reasons.
Anyway if you really want to use Gnucash2 just type fink remove gnucash followed by fink install gnucash2. That will delete the old install and add the new.
As for what is taking so long it is compiling it so that it will run on your system.
Thanks for the info
So its normal for it to be compiling for 45+ minutes? I also notice my /sw directory is growing in size, its now 1.2GB! Did I do something? Sorry for all the questions, but im learning
Thanks for the info
So its normal for it to be compiling for 45+ minutes? I also notice my /sw directory is growing in size, its now 1.2GB! Did I do something? Sorry for all the questions, but im learning
Depends. I think gnucash has a lot of dependancies that need to be compiled and installed. I can't remember how much space it took up on my computer when I last used it. How fast is your computer? 45 minutes seems reasonable for a project that requires so much, plus you have to factor in download time as well.
First, thanks for everyone who helped me out on this thread.
Well I managed to get Gnucash 2 successfully installed. I had to uninstall the old version which took no time at all, but the install for gnucash 2 took close to 2 hours. Im still a bit confused on why it takes so long. I have a MacBook Pro Core2Duo 2.2GHz with 2GB RAM.
Does this sound right that it took about 2 hours?
Whats the Pros/Cons in using Fink vs MacPorts?
I understand Fink is a "portal" to making Unix software run on the OSX, but what exactly is X11 and Xcode?
Im a bit confused on why the /sw is so big. Right now its about 1.93GB! The only thing I installed was gnucash 2. Why is that dir so big?
Last, to do all of these terminal commands I had to switch to my Admin account. I use a non-Admin account for daily use, but whenever I install an app I just put in my admin/password. When I tried doing the terminal commands with my non-Admin account, the admin password wasnt accepted when I entered it. I then had to login to switch to my Admin account. Is it possible to do these things without logging into an Admin account?
Dunno, never used Fink but they are similar.
Fink and macports isn't a "portal" as such, its a build system that allows you to compile and install unix software on your mac. Its taking up so much space because Unix software has a lot of dependencies and toolkits, libraries etc that they need in order to build and run. You're mac has all these as well, hence OSX is several gigs in size but since Unix programs have they're own libraries you need to build and install these as well. Fink and macports are systems that automate this build process, works out what software needs what libraries and builds all these for you in the correct order. Its all very clever stuff.
X11 is a graphical layer than Unix progams use. Mac uses Quartz to display its windows. Unix programs use X11. OSX comes with X11 and as you know you had to install it for your Unix programs to work.
Xcode is the Mac's toolset used for compiling and building programs from source code. Its not related to X11 in any way other than having an X in the name. Fink uses it to build the libraries and gnucash into runnable binaries before installation.
Unable to install GnuCash
Hello,
Sorry to re-open this case... But I was unable to install GnuCash2 using fink. I tried before using macPorts and after more than an hour the installation was incomplete.
Therefore, I installed fink, did selfupdate and configure it to see unstable too.
After all that: fink install gnucash2 returns this:
no package found for specification 'gnucash2'
Any ideas?
thanks!
Hello,
Sorry to re-open this case... But I was unable to install GnuCash2 using fink. I tried before using macPorts and after more than an hour the installation was incomplete.
Therefore, I installed fink, did selfupdate and configure it to see unstable too.
After all that: fink install gnucash2 returns this:
no package found for specification 'gnucash2'
Any ideas?
thanks!
Thats odd. Are you able to install anything else with fink?
I wish the developers would release a .dmg file for OSX. They have a Windows install, why not OSX ?
Sure I could probably figure it out, but I dont know the first thing about doing it. It would probably take me 10x as long as someone who has compiled a linux program to OSX before.
GnuCash wont run
I have a new Macbook Pro running Leopard 10.5.5 and have had no luck getting Gnucash to run. Did all the install steps going through x11, fink, finkcommander, just about every tip I have seen posted on the forums and web. Fink is only updating with the Version 1.8 Gnucash as last available even though the GnuCash website shows there is now a Version 2.2.7 as latest release. When I try to open in terminal, GnuCash appears to start with a pretty GUI, then stops with an error, says go to the Gnome error page for help(I have found no such place). Then gives a long error list in terminal:
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0208.1983-0
Gdk-WARNING **: KSC5601.1987-0
Gdk-WARNING **: GB2312.1980-0
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0201.1976-0
I have tried to download the latest Gnucash Version 2.2.7, but fink is not finding it, only wants to use the 1.8 version. Maybe I am missing something here as I am a newbie with Mac, coming from the Windows world. Would like to know if anyone has found a painless way to get GnuCash to run with Leopard. Thanks
I have a new Macbook Pro running Leopard 10.5.5 and have had no luck getting Gnucash to run. Did all the install steps going through x11, fink, finkcommander, just about every tip I have seen posted on the forums and web. Fink is only updating with the Version 1.8 Gnucash as last available even though the GnuCash website shows there is now a Version 2.2.7 as latest release. When I try to open in terminal, GnuCash appears to start with a pretty GUI, then stops with an error, says go to the Gnome error page for help(I have found no such place). Then gives a long error list in terminal:
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0208.1983-0
Gdk-WARNING **: KSC5601.1987-0
Gdk-WARNING **: GB2312.1980-0
Gdk-WARNING **: JISX0201.1976-0
I have tried to download the latest Gnucash Version 2.2.7, but fink is not finding it, only wants to use the 1.8 version. Maybe I am missing something here as I am a newbie with Mac, coming from the Windows world. Would like to know if anyone has found a painless way to get GnuCash to run with Leopard. Thanks
I am a newcomer here. Very computer illiterate. I am trying to download GNUCASH, but having trouble. I first downloaded MacPorts and installed it. Then I downloaded xcode and installed the first three sections of it. However, I have no idea how to open Macports. I just have a bunch of folders and files. Not quite sure what I'm doing.
I couldn't find the download for the most recent GNUcash source file, but I did find this page with a download for GNUcash 2.2.5.tar.tar. So I downloaded it and opened the zip file, and I have the same problem as Macports. I have a lot of GNUcash files and folders, but I can't figure out how to run the program.
Can any of you give me instructions for dummies?
I couldn't find the download for the most recent GNUcash source file, but I did find this page with a download for GNUcash 2.2.5.tar.tar. So I downloaded it and opened the zip file, and I have the same problem as Macports. I have a lot of GNUcash files and folders, but I can't figure out how to run the program.
Can any of you give me instructions for dummies?
No need to download the gnucash tar file. Once you have MacPorts installed and xcode, you need to use the terminal to install Gnucash.
Use this guide
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation#Using_MacPorts
Okay, I opened terminal-sh-80x24
I typed Port, the sudo port selfupdate, then sudo port install gnucash and this is what I got:
Port
MacPorts 1.710
Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
[Users/ronsrubbish] > sudo port selfupdate
Unrecognized action "sudo"
[Users/ronsrubbish] > sudo port install gnucash
Unrecognized action "sudo"
What do I do when it says unrecognized action "sudo"? This is all new to me. I didn't even know what Terminal was until I looked for it in Finder.
Are you running as root or admin?
Checkout this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1582114
Basically you need to make sure you install MacPorts under an admin account.
To be honest, I don't know. I don't really know what these things are. I am the only user on this computer, and whenever I try to download something, it asks for my password, but I don't know what it means to use root. Like I said, I'm computer illiterate. Shouldn't my account be the admin account if it asks for my user name and password?