David T. wrote: > I recently bit the bullet and upgraded my Macbook Pro (Intel) from 10.4.11 > Tiger to 10.5.1 Leopard, and I would like to share my success at getting > Fink/GnuCash back up and running. Please note that I share this mostly to say > "It worked the way it was supposed to"--and NOT to say this is how it will or > should work for anyone else. > > The first thing I did was consider how best to make the transition, and I > decided, from reading online, that the best approach was to start anew with > Fink under Leopard. My reasoning was: 1) Mostly I have used GnuCash, and > whatever else I have put on my machine using fink was not important enough to > try and carry forward. and 2) I do not want leftovers from Tiger messing me > up. > If I need a package that I forgot about, I will try to reinstall under > Leopard. > > So, after making a backup, I deleted the entire /sw directory. > > I installed XCode off the Leopard DVD. > > I downloaded and installed XQuartz X11 2.1.3 from > http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/Releases > > I downloaded and installed fink 0.27.8 following the instructions at > http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php. The boostrap script > now asks whether to include unstable. I chose yes. > > I ran "fink selfupdate" and then "fink install gnucash2". It took the better > part of a day to download and install the *188* dependencies that gnucash2.2.3 > uses, but once the process ran its course, gnucash fired right up. > > Although I have had troubles with the documentation, that pales beside the > happy moment when GnuCash started and loaded in my datafile without complaint. > > I thought it would be nice to share this success with the community. > > David > > > Yeah--the doc viewer has some issues that haven't been resolved yet. You may be able to remove some of the 188 packages, as some of them are build-time dependencies.
It's good to hear about your success, in any case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
