installation of gnucash

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Poldi Winkler writes:
 > Hello,
 > it's a very hard job to install gnucash!  I have used the SuSE-rpm-File
 > from Stephan and was very happy when I have solved all the dependences
 > (I hope so!). The last topic was slib. Then I have started gnucash and
 > I got the following message:
 > 
 > gnucash
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/c-interface.scm"
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/prefs.scm"
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/srfi/srfi-8.guile.scm"
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/text-export.scm"
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/report.scm"
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/report/average-balance.scm"
 > ERROR: In procedure open-file:
 > ERROR: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: "/usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat"
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/text-export.scm"
 > ERROR: Unbound variable: html-table-row
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/report/balance-and-pnl.scm"
 > ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:make-string-database
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/report/folio.scm"
 > ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:make-string-database
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/report/hello-world.scm"
 > ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:make-string-database
 > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/report/transaction-report.scm"
 > /usr/share/gnucash/scm/path.scm:101:35: While evaluating arguments to gnc:config-var-value-get in expression (gnc:config-var-value-get gnc:*config-dir*):
 > /usr/share/gnucash/scm/path.scm:101:35: Unbound variable: gnc:*config-dir*  
 > 
 > Shall I forget gnucash in the moment or do you have the solution?
 > 
 > I have found in /usr/share/guile/slib/mklibcat.scm and not mklibcat,
 > but all the other files are in /usr/share/gnucash/scm. 
 > 

Did you try putting in a symlink (ie, as root, 
cd /usr/share/guile/slib
ln -s mklibcat.scm mklibcat

)

Could you please report back if this helps?
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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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