Okay, I finally got gnucash up and running. It was a pain because I really didn’t know how Fink worked completely and how all these library dependencies were going to play out. It’s been a while since I’ve done a lot of C++ development and even then I selected an IDE that did my Makefiles for me.

Here’s some good stuff I learned. If you install gnucash, you might as well install gnucash-docs because the manual is pretty well written and helpful in many places. It has lots of screenshots and other goodies to make the setup easier.

Gtk is a pretty neat windowing toolkit, for a free one that is. Quartz blows the hell out of it as does Win32. The themes stuff is pretty cool and it took me a little bit to set that up. It turns out you need gtk-pixbuf to make the gtk themes work. I think you also need the gtk-engines package also. I don’t really know since I only got it to work with both installed. I didn’t test each one individually. Basically all that got me was to be able to turn my buttons different colors.

If you need some themes, go to themes.org. They have the most for Gtk and most of the other window managers.

X11 is fun.