Talk:Mac OS X:Build from source:MacPorts

2009-02-04T18:57:45Z

Lihtox: Added my installation record; it seems to be much easier now

==It's gotten easier==
I think this page may change drastically as MacPorts corrects its bugs. I've finally gotten GRAMPS installed from MacPorts on OSX 10.4.11 and it was a lot easier than in the article. I don't know whether I should replace this article, or just put in a new dated section.
Here were my steps; they will need to be elaborated for a wider audience.

1. Started with a clean MacPorts install (that is, I completely deleted /opt/local). It might suffice to update everything instead, but I wanted to be safe. If you're already using MacPorts then you might want to try updating all out-of-date packages first.

2. "sudo port install gtk2" (It might not be necessary to do this first, but it's what I did and it worked.)

3. "port activate -f python25" because the previous command stopped in the middle of the process, saying that it couldn't install python25.

4. "sudo port install gtk2" again to finish installing gtk2.

5. "sudo port install gramps" which finished without a hitch.

6. Type "launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist" into the terminal. This is necessary for the package dbus to work, and it actually tells you to do it back in the many pages of output from the installation, but of course you probably weren't watching the installation. :) Make sure that you DON'T put sudo in front of this.

7. Run GRAMPS from X11/

--[[User:Lihtox|Lihtox]] 18:57, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Mac OS X:Build from source:fink:local

2008-12-18T19:20:55Z

Lihtox: results when attempted on 10.4; help gratefully accepted

==Problems with 10.4==
This process worked for me on OSX 10.4 until I tried to run gramps, and got

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP
networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus
session: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not compiled in.
Cannot continue.)

This might be because 10.5 has a newer version of X11 installed, or for some other reason I can't ascertain. Help appreciated. --[[User:Lihtox|Lihtox]] 14:20, 18 December 2008 (EST)

Mac OS X:Build from source:fink

2007-05-07T03:40:20Z

Lihtox: /* Glitches */ Added fix for the gsignal problem; I don't know what "as described above" means here

== Installing Gramps on Mac OS X via fink to use X11 ==

This page describes how to install Gramps on OSX using X11. The process uses fink to install the packages that gramps depends on. Gramps does work, although there are some glitches which are described below. Many thanks to the original author from which this guide was written, and for the help of people on the Gramps list for helping me work through the stumbling blocks!

This guide applies to Mac OS X 10.3, and Gramps 2.2.6, but might work with other versions.

== Caveats ==

* As stated above, these instructions were for installing 2.2.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.8, but should work more widely.
* Production of a guide like this should really only be done after repeating the installation from a clean machine, and repeating again till the guide exactly matches the actual process - doing so would take a lot of time; I have only done the installation once, so your experience will almost certainly differ from mine.
* The process is not very straightforward, and there will almost certainly be problems like unresolved dependencies, files not found on the various servers, download of files just stalls indefinitely and questions asked by scripts to which you don't know the answer. Nevertheless, installation is possible and I think gramps is worth the trouble. I suggest you have a look at the instructions for [http://www.captnswing.net/2004/02/12/nicotine.html|Installing SoulSeek] - this is a similar process, but actually ''SoulSeek'' is easier because it is fully integrated into the fink process. This might give you some idea of the requirements for perseverance. If you don't think you could install ''SoulSeek'' then you certainly won't be able to install Gramps. '''The converse is not true'''
* You are installing from the 'unstable' fink tree, so the versions of the packages you install may vary from day to day, and there could be problems with them.

== Installation instructions ==

=== Install X11 ===

If you have not already installed X11, install it from the Apple OS X installation disks.

===Install Developer Tools===

If you have not already installed the Developer Tools, install them from a recent Apple OS X installation disks (there may be a CD labelled XCode Tools, or an XCode folder on the install DVD). If your installation disk is not very recent, it may be better to download the tools from the [http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/ Apple web-site] (free registration required to access the development tools) because some of the build process will not work with an old version of the tools.

===Install and update fink===

This was much more difficult than it should have been. From reading some of the fink mailing lists, I think there may have been some problems with updates to the fink mirrors at the time.

<ol><li> Download the appropriate version of [http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php?phpLang=en fink]. These instructions were tried with fink 0.8.1. You may need the [http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/ Fink User's Guide].
<li> Install fink by opening the disk image and double clicking on the installer.pkg.
<li> You could use FinkCommander to provide a GUI to fink, but it is not worth the trouble, because I wasn't sure that it actually offered all the packages that I wanted, and sometimes did not allow me to type in responses to questions (this is presumably a bug). I suggest you use Terminal. In Terminal type <tt>'''fink self-update'''</tt> This should download package descriptions and update core packages including fink itself. I thought it would be best to do this update before switching from source to binary distribution, but I had to try the whole updating process several times before I actually managed to get it to succeed, so this may be a bad choice.
<li> In Terminal type <tt>'''fink configure'''</tt> This should run the fink configuration process (or it may have been run automatically before). You need to choose source distribution (not binary). This will set the list of Trees in <tt>'''/sw/etc/fink.conf'''</tt> to have unstable/main at the end. If not you need to add this manually. Because <tt>fink.conf</tt> is owned by root, if you do this manually you will have to do <tt>'''sudo pico /sw/etc/fink.conf'''</tt>. During the configuration process you will also have to choose between the CVS (Concurrent Versions System or Concurrent Versioning System) and rsync update methods. Rsync is a very fast protocol. It will update the description files faster than the old CVS update method. Furthermore, CVS updates are always done from sourceforge.net while rsync updates can be done from a mirror close to you. I found that CVS often stalled trying to access files, though rsync had the disadvantage that sometimes files were not found (and perhaps as CVS uses the master copy the files should be found). Nevertheless, I suggest you use rsync. If you are behind a firewall (even the firewall in a broadband router), you may need to set ProxyPassiveFTP to true to help get around the firewall.
<li> In Terminal type <tt>'''fink selfupdate-rsync'''</tt> This should make sure all the package descriptions are downloaded, and the core packages correctly updated. I found I had to repeat this command several times, trying different mirrors when problems arose with accessing files, before the update succeeded. Fortunately, once a file has been downloaded, if you quit the process (ctrl-C), then on typing the command again, it starts from where it left off.
<li> I also got the following error, and carried out the suggested instructions (I had to use sudo apt-get in each case), which installed some extra packages and seemed to work.<pre> The following inconsistencies found:
Unsatisfied dependency in gettext-tools: gettext (= 0.10.40-19)

Trying to resolve dependencies...
Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies!

Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely.
You may be able to fix things by running:

fink scanpackages
apt-get update
apt-get install gettext=0.10.40-25{CODE}
</pre></li></ol>

===Install the Gramps dependencies===

In Terminal, successively type in the following instructions:

sudo fink install pygtk2-py24
sudo fink install gnome-python2-py24
sudo fink install librsvg2-gtk

I found that a number of the files could not be found on the first mirror that was tried, or the files would not download. Sometimes, I could follow the suggestions and get the file from the next mirror that was suggested. However I also quit out of the install process by ctrl-C (twice) and started again. Fortunately files already downloaded are remembered.

Later on, I found that the gramps build process complained about another package missing, so in Terminal I had to type:

sudo fink install gnome-doc-utils

In attempting to resolve some of the glitches, I also installed a number of other packages. These are not essential and did not resolve the issue with the spell checker, but somewhere along the way I seem to have resolved the assert warnings. In Terminal type:

sudo fink install gtkspell2
sudo install gnome-spell
sudo fink install gnome-spell
sudo fink install gnome-python2-py24-dev
sudo fink install gnome-python2-py24-vfsmodule
sudo fink install gtkspell2-dev

===Download and install Gramps===

<ol><li>[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25770 Download gramps] for example to <tt>'''~/Downloads'''</tt>. On the Gramps page, you need to scroll down to find a file like '''gramps-2.2.6.tar.gz'''.

<li>Unpack the file; assuming you download to the suggested place, in Terminal type:<pre> cd ~/Downloads
tar -xzf gramps-2.2.6.tar.gz
</pre> [According to the fink User's Guide "It is important that you don't use '''StuffIt Expander''' to extract the tar archive. For some reason '''StuffIt''' still can't handle long file names. If '''StuffIt Expander''' already extracted the archive, throw away the folder it created"].

<li>'''Optional:''' You can either install gramps in the default directory (which is '''/usr/local/share/gramps'''), or you can read the instructions in the gramps files about "how to install in a non-default prefix" so that you can install gramps into your users own folder rather than into /usr/local/. One user has found that it is best not to put things into /usr/local as it can be difficult to uninstall them afterwards. The following instructions assume you install in the default directory.

<li>Modify the configuration script in the download directory by changing <tt>'''configure'''</tt>. Replace:<pre> imp.find_module('gnome/ui')</pre>with<pre> imp.find_module('ui', gnome.__path__)
import gnome</pre>[Note that I don't understand why ''import gnome'' is added at the end, because it seems to be in the preceding lines, but this part of the instructions are just following the wording in a previous version of the instructions]. Also replace:

imp.find_module('gtk/glade')

with:

imp.find_module('glade', [imp.find_module('gtk')[1]])
import gnome

<li>In the file <tt>'''po/Makefile'''</tt>, make sure that <tt>'''GMSGFMT'''</tt> has the value:<pre> GMSGFMT = /sw/bin/msgfmt</pre>[This file does not seem to be present till part of the build has been done; it needs to be modified after it has been created and before it is used].

<li>Build gramps by typing in Terminal:<pre> ./configure
make
sudo make install</pre>

<li>In one of the updates along the way, I had installed Python version 2.5, which is not good because all the library packages are for 2.4. You will need to switch the default version that Python picks up. In Terminal type:<pre>sudo ln -sf /sw/bin/python2.4 python</pre>

<li>In <tt>'''/usr/local/share/gramps/GrampsWidgets.py'''</tt> put:<pre> try:
INFO_ICON = gtk.STOCK_INFO
except:
INFO_ICON = gtk.STOCK_DIALOG_INFO</pre>Somewhere after <tt>'''import gtk'''</tt> in the section labelled: Constants. Then change every reference to <pre>gtk.STOCK_INFO</pre> to <pre>INFO_ICON</pre></li></ol>

===Start Gramps===

This is how Gramps has to be started each time, because there is no tool to start X11 and Gramps together.

# Start X11 by double clicking on the X11 icon in Applications/Utilities (or in Applications, depending on the version of Mac OS X).
# Start Gramps, by typing, in xterm: <tt>'''gramps'''</tt>. After a pause "Spelling checker is not installed" appears on the xterm, and then Gramps should start.

==Glitches ==

There are some problems

* Help does not work (clicking Help or FAQ etc on the Help menu does nothing).
* 'Enter' or 'return' does not act as OK for closing windows (the button has to be pressed with the mouse). However Esc does work to exit from the window.
* The browser and email links under the help menu do nothing.
* It is not possible to start Gramps by double clicking on a Mac OS icon, nor by double clicking on a Gramps database that is associated with the application. (It should be possible to create an installation that allows this, just as it is available for OpenOffice).
* The PdfDoc.py plugin cannot be installed because ReportLab is not installed.
* The LPRDoc.py plugin cannot be loaded because the python bindings for GNOME print are not installed.
* Spell checking does not work (on starting Gramps, an error warning "Spelling checker is not installed" appears on the xterm). The python "bindings for [GNOME print and spell checking] are probably in fink's gnome-python2-desktop-py24 and gnome-python2-extras-py24 packages. Or would be, if fink had them at all, which we don't. They are only viable for for newer versions of gnome itself than fink presently has, or have other dependencies that are not yet satisfiable within fink. We're working on it".
* (Gramps bug 0000940) On starting Gramps, the following assert warnings are output:
<pre>
/usr/local/share/gramps/DbLoader.py:99:
GtkWarning: gtk_file_system_unix_get_folder:
assertion `g_path_is_absolute (filename)' failed
choose.set_current_folder(get_default_dir())
/usr/local/share/gramps/DbLoader.py:153:
GtkWarning: gtk_file_system_unix_get_folder:
assertion `g_path_is_absolute (filename)' failed
choose.set_current_folder(default_dir)
</pre>
* (Gramps bug 0000940) When running gramps, the following warning is output on xterm - this appears to be when I open a new window:

(gramps:516): libglade-WARNING **: unknown property `urgency_hint'
for class `GtkDialog'

* (Gramps bug 0000939) Detection of the availability of gsignal is flawed. In GrampsWidgets.py, there is some code to cater for different versions of gtk.pygtk. I have fink packages pygtk2-gtk-py* version 2.6.3-1 and pygtk2-py* version 2.6.3-2000 installed, so this certainly seems to be version 2.6, and is presumably causing HAVE_2_6 to be set to true. However, on running gramps, I get:

[name G5:~] name% gramps
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/gramps/gramps.py", line 97, in ?
import gramps_main
File "/usr/local/share/gramps/gramps_main.py", line 47, in ?
import ViewManager
File "/usr/local/share/gramps/ViewManager.py", line 68, in ?
import GrampsCfg
File "/usr/local/share/gramps/GrampsCfg.py", line 47, in ?
from GrampsWidgets import *
File "/usr/local/share/gramps/GrampsWidgets.py", line 1162, in ?
class MaskedEntry(gtk.Entry):
File "/usr/local/share/gramps/GrampsWidgets.py", line 1216, in MaskedEntry
gsignal('size-allocate', 'override')
NameError: name 'gsignal' is not defined

The problem is worked around as described above. It also seems to work if you replace or follow the line
HAVE_2_6 = gtk.pygtk_version[:2] == (2, 6)
with
HAVE_2_6 = False

* (Gramps-users report 19 Feb 2007) Output of (for example charts) to OpenOffice causes OpenOffice to crash due to a problem with Gramps handling of '&'.
* (Gramps bug 0000938) Import of a GEDCOM file that contains an invalid date of the form 2 DATE BET ABT 1912 AND 1915 causes the date to appear as blank.
* (Gramps-devel mailing list 11 Feb 2007) Gramps aborts at startup with the following error:

File "/usr/local/share/gramps/GrampsWidgets.py", line 2010, in ?
MANDATORY_ICON = gtk.STOCK_INFO
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'STOCK_INFO'{CODE}

This stock item is added in Gtk 2.8 and fink an older Gtk, for more info see: http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/gtk-stock-items.html.

This is worked around by patching the application as above.

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