Installation guidance

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:42:46 -0700


Rich Shepard writes:
>   We're running a Red Hat 6.1 network here and we want to use gnucash for
> our personal finances (we have another -- quite expensive -- accounting
> package for the business).
> 
>   I downloaded the rpm for gnucash-1.4.5. When I tried to install it, I
> found a bunch of depencies missing. All but one are installed on the server,
> but were not installed via packages. The missing one was guile. So, I went
> to the rpm repository and got the latest guile-1.4.2.

The gnucash-1.4.5 rpm is created with the version of guile installed
with RedHat 6.2 (guile-1.3). Unless you have a need for the latest
guile, I recommend downgrading to guile-1.3 via rpms. You will need
to install umb-scheme-3.2 as well (via rpm).

dave