On 2 Feb 2007, at 9:01:12 AM, Thomas Kappler wrote: > I just installed libofx3 on my Intel Mac, everything went fine, no > errors. > > Then, I wanted to install gnucash, but the immense list of > dependencies kept me from hitting "Y" - 111 packages, not counting > libofx3 and its five dependencies. Well, if they are necessary, ok, > but I'm wondering about the purpose of some of them. > What is QT doing there, for example? Also, there are a lot of perl > modules, although gnucash doesn't use it, or am I mistaken here? > > Cheers, > Thomas
QT3 is required to create/use the setup wizard for online banking (part of aqbanking). The perl modules are required for retrieving stock quotes. The primary one being finance-quote. Four of the others are direct dependencies of finance-quote, and the other is a module used by one of the 'helper' apps that gnucash uses to arbitrate between f-q and gnucash. Perhaps the weirdest dependency is that gnucash2 requires both glib2 and glib. The glib dependency is dragged in by g-wrap. I tried a patch that some other distributions use to make g-wrap build against glib2, but something didn't work right, so I left g-wrap alone. The g- wrap dependency will go away with gnucash 2.2. Another thing that may happen once you agree to the monster list of dependencies is that sometimes fink's dependency engine gets confused, and the install process stops part way through with an error. Usually you can just 'fink install gnucash2' again and it will progress from the place where trouble began. On occasion, you might have to install separately whichever package the install error occurred in, then install gnucash2. Good luck. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
