Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com> writes:

> I just bought my first macbook last week.  I am completely new to the mac environment and understand that the only way to install gnucash is via macports.
>
> If anyone has used the macports for installation and is familiar with this error your help or direction would be greatly appreciated.  Regards.
>
> Here is the error:
[snip]
>  /opt/local/lib/libfontconfig.dylib /opt/local/lib/libexpat.dylib /opt/local/lib/libtiff.dylib /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.dylib /opt/local/lib/libpng12.dylib -lm ../gdk-pixbuf/.libs/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.dylib  -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreServices -Wl,-framework -Wl,ApplicationServices -install_name  /opt/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.0.dylib -compatibility_version 1201 -current_version 1201.9
> i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.0.0.dylib: No such file or directory

This means you don't have the Xrandr library installed... Which should
be part of X, I think..


My understanding is that as of 10.5, macports has become less stable
and usable than fink.  So it sounds like for 10.5 you're better off
using Fink to install GnuCash.

See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation

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-derek

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