no go

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:52:58 -0800


lee writes:
> just finished successful install of 1.5.3...yup I know development
> release :)
> 
> anyway i'm wanting to view/help test but am getting the following on
> startup and don't see it repeated on mailing list anywhere..thanks <lee>
> ****Redhat 7 with 2.4.1****
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> [root@c1347127-a /root]# gnucash
> 
> 
> This is a development version. It may or may not work.
> Report bugs and other problems to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org.
> The last stable version was gnucash-1.4.10.
> The next stable version will be gnucash-1.6.0.
> 
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback
> Warning!  Falling back to string-based exceptions
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Fatal Python error: couldn't import os
> Aborted (core dumped)
> [root@c1347127-a /root]#

Very strange, I'm not sure why python is even being invoked
here. Perhaps guppi is doing this. At any rate, do you have
python installed and, if so, what version?

dave