This must be a FAQ, but I did not find it.

[Jean-David Beyer]

I just downloaded:

-rw-r----- 1 jdbeyer jdbeyer 3921779 Mar 14 17:01
gnucash-1.4.10-1.i386.rpm
-rw-r----- 1 jdbeyer jdbeyer  161512 Mar 14 17:02
gtkhtml-0.4-1.i386.rpm
-rw-r----- 1 jdbeyer jdbeyer  200881 Mar 14 17:02
gtkhtml-devel-0.4-1.i386.rpm
-rw-r----- 1 jdbeyer jdbeyer  427826 Mar 14 17:04
guile-1.3.4-2.i386.rpm

and tried to install them. I run VA Linux Systems version of Red Hat
Linux 6.2 (they call it 6.2.3 and has a lot of updatang RPMs in it).

Installing them all at once did not work, so I installed just the
guile first and that went in OK. I infer as much because I get:

valinux:root[/usr/local/Downloaded/GnuCash]# rpm -q guile
guile-1.3.4-2
valinux:root[/usr/local/Downloaded/GnuCash]# 

But when I try the rest, I get:

valinux:root[/usr/local/Downloaded/GnuCash]# rpm -Uvh
gnucash-1.4.10-1.i386.rpm gtkhtml-0.4-1.i386.rpm
gtkhtml-devel-0.4-1.i386.rpm 
error: failed dependencies:
	libguile.so.4 is needed by gnucash-1.4.10-1
valinux:root[/usr/local/Downloaded/GnuCash]# 

If I examine my libguile.so files, I see:

valinux:root[/usr/local/Downloaded/GnuCash]# ls -l /usr/lib/libgu*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 Mar 14 17:08 /usr/lib/libguile.so.6 ->
libguile.so.6.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 552778 Oct  6  1999 /usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0
valinux:root[/usr/local/Downloaded/GnuCash]# 

Does this mean I must get an older version of libguile somewhere? Or
do I dare put a link libguile.so.4 -> libguile.so.6.0.0 in there? I
fear to do that.

What is the right way to install this?

-- 
 .~.  Jean-David Beyer           Registered Linux User 85642.
 /V\                             Registered Machine    73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey     http://counter.li.org 
^^-^^ 5:10pm up 12 days, 14 min, 4 users, load average: 2.05, 2.08,
2.08