On Saturday 18 June 2011 10:06, Ian Goddard ([email protected]) opined: > Bob Melson wrote: >> Following the gramps-users mailing list, however, I do >> see that there's an "aio installer" for gramps 3.2.1 and will soon be >> one >> for 3.3.0. As I understand it, the "aio installer" installs everything >> needed to run gramps on a windows box. Keep in mind, however, that the >> foregoing is worth exactly what you paid for it. Further deponent saith >> not. > > And, FWIW, do you have a download link for that, Bob? It will be useful > if the attendees at next term's FH workshop can run the same > genealogical S/W as me without having to make the great leap from > darkness into light. In fact, I might even see if I can get the library > IT staff to install it on their machines. > > -- > Ian > > The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang > at austonley org uk Ian: I'm not quite so negative as John is in a follow-on post. However, it does appear that installing gramps on a windoze box is not something for the faint-hearted. See the following: http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download to get started. The rest seems fairly well documented in the links for windows. HTH, Swelterin' Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes -- Thomas Paine

Bob Melson wrote: > On Saturday 18 June 2011 10:06, Ian Goddard ([email protected]) > opined: > >> Bob Melson wrote: >>> Following the gramps-users mailing list, however, I do >>> see that there's an "aio installer" for gramps 3.2.1 and will soon be >>> one >>> for 3.3.0. As I understand it, the "aio installer" installs everything >>> needed to run gramps on a windows box. Keep in mind, however, that the >>> foregoing is worth exactly what you paid for it. Further deponent saith >>> not. >> And, FWIW, do you have a download link for that, Bob? It will be useful >> if the attendees at next term's FH workshop can run the same >> genealogical S/W as me without having to make the great leap from >> darkness into light. In fact, I might even see if I can get the library >> IT staff to install it on their machines. >> >> -- >> Ian >> >> The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang >> at austonley org uk > > Ian: > > I'm not quite so negative as John is in a follow-on post. Neither am I as Gramps the only recognised genealogy package I use. Although I have a fair amount of stuff in an Informix database as well... -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk