On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:
I would like to install gnucash on a Macbook running OS X 10.5.4. It appears that I would need either Fink or Darwinports installed to install gnucash. Because my past experiences with Fink have not been positive I am considering installing Darwinports. However, I notice that they want me to override many system libraries with their versions of the libraries (http://gnucash.darwinports.com/install/). Am I likely to cause problems with R running on this system if I do so?
You will probably get differing opinions on the matter. It's probably not just a question about R, but also other things like TeX. You are not actually overriding system libraries, you are just putting the darwinports binaries earlier on the shell path. But I must be missing something, can't you just compile directly from the gnucash source? It shouldn't be much harder than installing darwinports, so unless you need a lot of other darwinports stuff, I see no reason to mess up with the system more than you have to.
Btw, I believe it's called MacPorts now. Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
