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How can I install GNUCash on Leopard?

Kangkairen said:
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.
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I would recommend not installing GNUCash unless you want to spend a lot of time learning the command line. Its not as simple as the gnucash wiki says, I even had to fiddle with other unix commands.

Is there a particular reason why you want to use GNUCash over a OSX Finance package?
 
techmonkey said:
I would recommend not installing GNUCash unless you want to spend a lot of time learning the command line. Its not as simple as the gnucash wiki says, I even had to fiddle with other unix commands.

Is there a particular reason why you want to use GNUCash over a OSX Finance package?
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Yes, I can't find any free or affordable accounting and billing software for a Mac to use in my lawn business other than GNUCash. Quickbooks is too expensive for me right now. I agree with you, I don't want something difficult. Do you know of anything? What is a good OSX Finance package that keeps customer accounts, accounting, and billing?

Also, if I don't use GNUCash, how can I uninstall Xcode and Macports?
 
Kangkairen said:
Yes, I can't find any free or affordable accounting and billing software for a Mac to use in my lawn business other than GNUCash. Quickbooks is too expensive for me right now. I agree with you, I don't want something difficult. Do you know of anything? What is a good OSX Finance package that keeps customer accounts, accounting, and billing?

Also, if I don't use GNUCash, how can I uninstall Xcode and Macports?
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You could try these free finance apps

http://buddi.thecave.homeunix.org/en/index.jsp

http://www.lyricapps.com/iCompta/

The main reason I use GNUCash is because its cross-platform. Since I use Windows and Mac, I was stuck using MS Money on my Win machine.

If I was only using Mac, I would get a program like ChaChing or iBank.
 
Kangkairen said:
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.
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The problem here is obvious. You've ran "port" which has put you into port interactive mode. Then you've tried to run another terminal command inside the port application. Do this;

Open Terminal.app
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install gnucash

(Don't run "port" by itself).
 
Any luck?

Sorry, I didn't realize the thread was three pages long....very helpful info though.....thank you!!!!!!!!!!
 
clarification on running root

Well I am also in the Gnucash problem boat. I've installed Xcode, Macports, Fink, Finkcommander, downloaded the tar files and uncompressed, have updated Fink several times and set it to use unstable, but scanning packages does not turn up Gnucash2.

I feel like I am close because I was successful in installing Gnucash (the 1.8 version) but it doesn't work on OS X 10.5.7. Still I was happy to have installed it.

I'm backing up now trying to figure out what needs to be tweaked to get this to work. I'm unclear on running commands as root. Right now when I give commands it is under "berea-ernsts-macbook:~ bereaernst$" This is the only user set up on the computer and is the administrator for installing anything else on the computer. Am I running commands as root when I use this?

When I gave command "dselect" to see Fink's binary packages it told me I didn't have permission for anything other than read-only, which made me question if I am giving commands as root.

I am interested in using Gnucash because I heard it was the closest program to Quickbooks which I am proficient in and like to use. Any help with this would be appreciated as I am nearing 12 hours of messing with it : ) And I am learning a lot too which I enjoy.
 
Update: I just ran "sudo fink list" and Gnucash2 was there. Then this happened:

berea-ernsts-macbook:~ bereaernst$ sudo fink install gnucash2
Information about 8556 packages read in 1 seconds.
Can't resolve dependency "libtasn1-3-shlibs (>= 2.2-2)" for package
"gnome-keyring-2.26.1-2" (no matching packages/versions found)
Exiting with failure.

This also happens when I give command "fink install gnucash2" without the "sudo."

If I attempt to solve this, will it work from then on or is this the first of a series of problems that I will have to address to install it? I wouldn't have much confidence in what I was doing if I had to figure out many of these dependencies myself.
 
Solution to OS X 10.5 Issues with Fink

I think I've found the cause of my problems although haven't successfully resolved yet. Apparently there are version specific problems with the binary distribution of Fink not recognizing packages on Mac OS X 10.5, which is what I have. This is also the cause of the "can't resolve dependency" problem.

See here http://www.finkproject.org/faq/upgrade-fink.php?phpLang=en#leopard-bindist1

I think I'm just going to uninstall and reinstall Fink and not use the binary distribution.
 
as I said earlier, you should use MacPorts. I think the community has more support and its updated more than Fink.
 
If you're looking for something cross-platform and free that runs more easily on OS X, check out jGnash.

For me, the latest 2.x versions have problems running for me on Leopard (10.5), but I managed to work around that (I think by setting JRE 6 as my preferred Java Runtime Environment) and could probably help you if you also need help. (Or, you can install NetBeans and build it from the source code yourself--almost what you did with GNUcash, but probably a bit easier. A bit. :D) The 1.x versions work fine, but they're missing a few new features.

The only downside is that it is a Java Swing UI, not a Cocoa UI, and you can tell--but it does its job well, so I don't care. Plus, like I said, it's portable; sometimes I take my database file (that's where it stores everything) and use it on Windows and move back and forth without problems.
 
starting over with macports?

Jngcash looks interesting but I've gotten so far with Gnucash I hate to start over with another program. Thanks though :)

I have gotten about 2/3 of the way compiled with Fink, but am still having to continually update fink and some pieces aren't building right. don't know how it will turn out.

If I switch to macports now, with 2/3 compiled under fink, will that cause me any problems?
 
I would uninstall GNUCash under fink, then use MacPorts.

I just reformatted my computer so I had to install GNUCash again. The tutorial I posted earlier is easy. This time I installed using Quartz, so no need of X11.
 
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