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

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