Gnucash & Tiger

Another installment in the collective tech-support arena: Gnucash wasn’t working under OS X Tiger (10.4.5); whenever I tried to run a report I kept getting the following cryptic error message in my terminal: dyld: Symbol not found: _program_invocation_short_name Referenced from: /sw/lib/libgnome.32.dylib Expected in: flat namespace A google search didn’t reveal anything with those error messages as keywords, so it was up to me to find the answer. Fourtunately my first stab in the dark worked! I did a fink selfupdate and then fink update-all (I’m using FinkCommander so I did those fink commands from the Source menu). I’m guessing that when I reinstalled gnucash after updating to Tiger, there were still some bugs in several of the libraries that were fixed by the fink update. Be forewarned that this take a loooong time to complete (overnight for me on my G4 powerbook). [tags]gnucash,fink,FinkCommander[/tags]