dependency hell
Dan Kegel
dank@kegel.com
Wed, 16 May 2001 19:43:51 -0700
When I tried a while ago to install gnucash, the dependencies were many.
I just looked at the RPM for 1.5.95, and the dependencies are now legion.
Voila:
[root@danq downloads]# rpm -i gnucash-1.5.95-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libbonobo-print.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libbonobo.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libbonobox.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libgal.so.6 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libgtkhtml.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppidata.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppidataui.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppimath.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppiplot.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppispecfns.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppistat.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppitank.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libguppiuseful.so.9 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
libg-wrap-runtime-guile.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
liboaf.so.0 is needed by gnucash-1.5.95-1
I'd love to help you folks QA this, but I won't be able to
unless you provide all the RPM's I need to install on
Red Hat 7.1 to install yours. There's no way the average
user should have to hunt them down. And tonight, I feel like
a very average user...
- Dan
p.s. Please reply to dank@kegel.com