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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
