Ximian gtkhtml upgrade breaks gnucash package

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Roger H. Goun wrote:

> The latest release of the gtkhtml and libgtkhtml packages from Ximian
> for Red Hat 7.1 has broken a GnuCash 1.6.1 dependency.
>
> [root@kiera roger]# rpm -Uvh gtkhtml-0.10.1-ximian.1.i386.rpm libgtkhtml13-0.10.1-ximian.1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	libgtkhtml.so.10   is needed by gnucash-1.6.1-1
>
> I forced the upgrade (--nodeps), and of course gnucash couldn't start,
> so I created a symlink:
>
> [root@kiera roger]# cd /usr/lib
> [root@kiera lib]# ln -s libgtkhtml.so.13 libgtkhtml.so.10
>
> This works in my very limited testing, but of course it's not an ideal
> solution. Should I have installed rather than upgraded libgtkhtml?
>
> Would it be possible/worthwhile to link the gnucash executable in the
> RPM statically to reduce all this shared library thrashing? I'm new to
> GnuCash, so forgive me if I'm reopening old wounds here.

I upgraded to the latest gtkhtml (by source not a brain-damaged package
system), and gnucash still works fine.

-jwb