Has anyone in the group got any experience trying to install XD2 from a local directory? Or trying to get answers from Ximian?
I wanted to install XD2 to my two RedHat 7.3 systems. Thought it'd be safer and involve less traffic $$$ to download one set of files and then install to both machines. Followed Ximian's instructions, downloaded EVERYTHING from the PlanetMirror mirror (800 MB - aargh! wouldn't have proceeded if I'd known - there also seem to be a lot of legacy files there), set up the folder structure exactly as told, but the installation keeps hanging up with the following message. Couldn't verify signatures: couldn't prepare package signature: unable to open /share/http://rc-pkginfo.ximian.com/redhat-73-i386/redhat-73-i386/gnucash-1.6.6-3.i386.rpm: unable to open /share/http://rc-pkginfo.ximian.com/redhat-73-i386/redhat-73-i386/gnucash-1.6.6-3.i386.rpm (sorry the formatting here may be hard to read). I couldn't find anything about this particular kind of error via Google or on Ximian's Web site, so I posted the message to Ximian. Response: more or less, if you pay we answer, if not, you're on your own. Having invested enough $ in the download let alone the time involved, I signed up for a month's premium service from Ximian. (USD 29). I got one two-line suggestion, which didn't help the problem (rpm --rebuilddb), and since then, no responses. It seems to me that even though I've got Ximian's gnucash rpm in the local directory (not only in the same directory as the other XD2 files, but also in the redcarpet and evolution directories just to be sure!), the installer is still looking somewhere off-site for them; but I don't speak installer. :<} In my search for answers I found the suggestion that I change the proxy server (# export http_proxy=\"http://host:port/\";) but I don't know how exactly to enter that so the installer would keep looking locally for the gnucash rpm. Blowing my Jet$tream quota and then some on the download was my own poor judgement, I suppose; but paying for service and getting ignored gets my blood pressure up. =====Andrew
