profit and loss report
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 11 13:27:06 EST 2013
Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> writes:
> On 02/08/2013 10:15 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> writes:
>>
>>> Red Hat do not support gnucash, so I did need to get a lot of RPMs to
>>> get it to load and run. This was tedious and slow, but not difficult.
>>> ldd is your friend. YMMV.
>>
>> Sure they do! It's part of the EPEL repository. Just add that repo and
>> then you can safely "yum install gnucash". This is true on both EL5 and
>> EL6.
>
> I guess it is a difference in point-of-view. Since I run Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux (6 at the moment), and they support that, that is what
> I meant by support. And they do not distribute gnucash with it, and it
> is not in the RHEL 6 repositories. So if I log into their site for
> support, I am never even offered the EPEL stuff.
>
> As far as I know, I got most of the needed rpms for gnucash from EPEL,
> but perhaps not all. You call that supported by Red Hat, and I do not.
> But as a practical matter your view is just as good as mine.
My definition of "supported" in this context is "can I get a binary
package for my distribution such that I do not have to build it from
source myself". And by that definition, yes, RHEL is supported via the
EPEL repository.
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-derek
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