I have the EXACT same problem with gnucash 1.6 & 1.4...

[Tim Meador]

Hey!

You wrote:
>I've been running Gnucash 1.4.10-1mdk (on Mandrake 8.0). Last Sunday I h=
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the "This file appears to be from a newer version of GNUCash.  You must=20
upgrade GnuCash to read this file." error message<

I.m a newbie and just started using Mandrake 8.0.  Had this same error=20
message, with the .lck file thing, when I tried to open .qif files export=
ed=20
from MS Money 2001 in GNUCash 1.4 that came with the Mandrake distributio=
n.=20
Never could get anything to open.  So naturallyI did what it suggested,=20
downloaded the 1.6 rpm and tried installing it.  Followed the GNUCash=20
website's warning that I also needed Guppi, Guile, Slib, and G-wrap for 1=
=2E6=20
to work.  G-wrap & Guile were already installed on mine, and I dowloaded =
and=20
installed Slib and Guppi befrore installing 1.6.  During the install, an=20
error pop-up said GNUCash needed another file,=20

libgnomeprint.so.11=20

but I went ahead and forced installation, hoping for at least partial=20
functionality 'til I located that file.  But now GNUCash won't even load,=
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much less open a file.  Uninstall & reinstall no help.  I should also say=
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that when I installed the Guppi 0.35.5-1 .i385rpm it also aske d for a co=
uple=20
of files,

libgnomeprint.so.11 =20
libguile.so.6<>=3DS=20

but I haven't been able to locate any of these three files.   So, I'm hop=
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you have found a solution, or at least can tell me where to find these fi=
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and where they belong.  GNUCash is a killer app for me, too, and having t=
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still use MS Money is the biggest reason I still dual-boot Win98.

Thanks for any help...Tim