Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)

[Melinda Savoy]

Dave,

Sorry for the delay in responding.  Been out of pocket since last week.

It did run initially but then I started having problems with the file disappearing so it did not work properly.

I submitted a problem post for this list on the file disappearing and Derek was kind to respond.  I am trying to get Derek's question answered as I do not know what file system we are running on.

I will most definitely post the steps I took but thought I'd wait until I get it actually working in the Mac/OS environment.

Appreciate your response.  Regards.



----- Original Message ----
From: Dave <dave256 at fastmail.fm>
To: Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:35:39 AM
Subject: Re: Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)


So did it run and work correctly?

If so, posting a summary message of the steps needed would be nice for  
the archive.

Thanks,
Dave

On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Melinda Savoy wrote:

> David & all,
>
> Please disregard my previous email below as I relaunched the sudo  
> port install gnucash command about more 2X and it finally  
> completed.  Woo Hoo.
>
> Hopefully it will run.
>
> David and Derek -- thanks for all the help.
>
> Regards.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>
> To: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:20:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)
>
> David,
>
> After trying to install gnuCash via macports again I just got the  
> following error, any suggestions or direction would be greatly  
> appreciated:
>
> You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it  
> needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port
> --->  Installing p5-getopt-long 2.37_0
> --->  Activating p5-getopt-long 2.37_0
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ 
> local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm is being used by the active  
> perl5.8 port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag  
> to force the activation.
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: evince gnome-icon- 
> theme icon-naming-utils p5-getopt-long p5-xml-simple p5-xml- 
> namespacesupport p5-xml-sax gnome-keyring libgcrypt libgpg-error  
> libtasn1 gnome-vfs desktop-file-utils popt gnome-mime-data  
> libart_lgpl libgnome libbonobo libgnomecanvas gail libgnomeui  
> libbonoboui m4 nautilus eel gnome-desktop gnome-themes gtk-engines2  
> gvfs libsoup gnutls lzo opencdk readline py25-gnome py25-gtk py25- 
> cairo py25-numpy fftw-3 g95 py25-orbit startup-notification gnome- 
> menus librsvg libcroco libgsf libexif poppler poppler-data goffice03  
> libgnomeprintui libgnomeprint bison libgnomecups pcre guile16  
> libgtkhtml3 p5-finance-quote p5-crypt-ssleay p5-libwww-perl p5- 
> compress-zlib p5-compress-raw-zlib p5-io-compress-base p5-scalar- 
> list-utils p5-io-compress-zlib p5-html-parser p5-html-tagset p5-uri  
> p5-datemanip p5-html-tableextract slib slib-guile16
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>
> To: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:52:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)
>
> David,
>
> I went back to the fix command for gtk2 and it worked just fine.   
> I've gone back to the macports install just because it seemed a lot  
> cleaner and more polished install.  My perspective may be incorrect  
> but that is my perspective.
>
> Thank so much again.  Hopefully this install will now proceed  
> without incident.
>
> Regards.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> To: Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:21:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)
>
> I'm almost positive you will run into exactly the same error with  
> the fink build -- this is an Apple induced error.
>
> The same perl command should work to fix the fink build.
>
>
> Now I recommend that you run the x11 patch, then rerun 'fink install  
> gnucash2' so that you're attempting to complete the most recent  
> effort.
>
>
> Dave
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Melinda Savoy wrote:
> David and Derek,
>
> Thanks so much for all the help.  I am in the middle of going down  
> the path of the fink installation.  gnuCash currently is in the  
> middle of its install.
>
> If this does not work I'll try David's suggestion.  As I stated  
> previously, I'm new to the mac environment coming from  the window  
> environment and this seems like a lot of work to install one  
> program.  But I guess I'm spoiled.
>
> Thanks again for your time and help.  Hopefully the gnuCash install  
> from the fink package will be successful.
>
> Regards.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> To: Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:50:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)
>
>
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Melinda Savoy wrote:
> [snip]
>> i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.0.0.dylib: No
>> such file or directory
> [snip]
>
> This is a bug in Apple's X11 implementation. They're moving to xorg's
> X11, but they screwed up for machines that have never had 10.5 earlier
> than 10.5.2.
>
> One of fink's x11 experts says that the command:
>
> sudo perl -pi.bak -e 's|2.0.0|2.1.0|' /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.la
>
> from a terminal window should fix it. (Only have to do this once,
> unless Apple breaks it again with 10.5.3.)
>
> Also, it looks to me like Macports has fixed the guile/slib issues
> with their gnucash portfile. So, since you already have the macports
> infrastructure in place, I'd recommend you try the X11 patch, and then
> reissue the macports install command for gnucash.
>
> If you do choose to try fink's gnucash package, it's package name is
> gnucash2. But one still launches it with just 'gnucash' in a terminal
> window.
>
> Fink's gnucash2-docs package (the help files) does not work at the
> moment because of a gnome version mismatch problem with yelp (gnome's
> help system).
>
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net







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