jim said:

   what is going wrong with it or with its installation

guiguts installation requires a mac user to drop into "terminal" -- the linux command mode -- where a number of dependencies need to be taken care of. this is not something that your "typical" mac user does too often, if at all, so they aren't experienced with it. and because some of the dependencies have dependencies as well, it can get thorny. and since debugging linux thorniness can be thoroughly convoluted, it's very easy for everyone -- helper and helpee -- to get frustrated... to get an idea about all of this, just visit the wiki pages on installation:

http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install/Windows http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install/Mac http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/PPTools/Guiguts/Install/Linux

the problem is largely circumvented for windows users, since a binary is offered to them that shortcircuits a lot of the work. (although they still have to install perl, and several "helpers", e.g., aspell, aspell dictionaries, a graphics viewer, and jeebies.) as a result, d.p. consistently finds itself short on "post-processors" -- the stage where guiguts is used -- and not just because of the trouble with guiguts (which is, once you get it going, not too bad), but rather because the whole workflow is such a patchwork of crap, and the post-processor is the person who has to clean up all of that. -bowerbird ************** We found the real ‘Hotel California’ and the ‘Seinfeld’ diner. What will you find? Explore WhereItsAt.com. (http://www.whereitsat.com/?ncid=emlwenew00000004)