Gnucash 1.5.6 & Python

[Nathan A. Smith]

Hi, 

I have been trying to run the latest gnucash, but when I do I get the
following errors:

Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Fatal Python error: couldn't import os
Aborted (core dumped)



What does this mean? And how do I fix it?  I could assign PYTHONHOME to
/usr/lib/python2.1/ and that gets rid of the first 2 lines.  But what
does the rest mean?  Thanks

Nasa