1/7/2024 0 Comments Instaling Swish for Mac![]() ![]() (No doubt I’ll eat my words when I finally attempt to upgrade my Mac from Tiger to Leopard, and watch it eat all my apps and data. ![]() Right, back to doing my accounts – in my old version of Ubuntu. But when a stock, stable release of Ubuntu can’t even install itself under a Parallels VM on a Mac – hardly an uncommon scenario – then desktop-ready it ain’t.Īnd yes, there probably are workarounds involving hacking nf files around – oh look, here’s one – but you know what? Life’s waayyyy too short. Now I know the Ubuntu team do an excellent job on the whole, and they’re really trying to make Linux successful on the desktop. What’s going on is another user is moving further away from Linux, and that’s baaad for Linux. “It is likely that something bad is going on.” Correct. I think it survived all of two minutes before randomly expanding and contracting the Parallels window, then coming up with this spectacular message: After waiting an hour and a half for the 700MB ISO to download, I went through the helpful Parallels setup tool to boot the new VM and begin the Ubuntu install. ![]() I was getting a bit bored of my ancient Ubuntu version so I decided to download and install the latest and greatest – 7.10 – in a new Parallels VM. So I run Ubuntu in a Parallels VM just so I can use GnuCash. I love GnuCash, and installing the latest version on Mac OS X is a right pain. I still use Linux for one main task: my accounts. ![]()
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