1.6 reports "ERROR: required feature not supported"

Ross Boylan RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org
Thu, 9 May 2002 11:55:38 -0700


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:11:23PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote:
> Hi folks--
> 
> I'm new to gnucash.  I'd like to try it out but I can't get past the
> following:
> 
> ERROR:  In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error (quote
> misc-error) #f ...);
> ERROR:  ;required feature not supported:  printf
> 
> Any ideas?  Should I look elsewhere--such as libguile?
> 
> For the record:
>   This is a new installation, not an upgrade.  Rebuilding gnucash from
> sources doesn't help--as opposed to downloading executables.
> 
> I'm using the following debian packages:
>   gnucash        1.6.6-1
>   libguile9       1:1.4-24
>   guile1.4-slib 1:1.4-24
>   slib               2d2-1
> 
> And, I tried posting to gnucash-user, but I got no response.
> 

I'm running Debian woody, have no problem starting the program.  I
used the command menu (Utilities | Debian | Gnucash) under KDE.  I
know this doesn't solve your problem, but at least it's information :)

Debian packages are pretty much supposed to work, so you might
considering filing a debian bug report, using reportbug or some
similar tool.  Here's the dependency information it gives me for my
system:

Package: gnucash
Version: 1.6.6-1

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wheat 2.4.18 #1 Sat May 4 10:07:13 PDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnucash depends on:
ii  bonobo                        1.0.20-1   The GNOME Bonobo System.
ii  gdk-imlib1                    1.9.14-2   Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library fo
ii  guile1.4                      1:1.4-24   The GNU extension language and Sch
ii  guile1.4-slib                 1:1.4-24   SLIB support for guile1.4 and libg
ii  libart2                       1.4.1.4-3  The Gnome canvas widget - runtime
ii  libaudiofile0                 0.2.3-4    The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo2                    1.0.20-1   The GNOME Bonobo library.
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdate-manip-perl            5.40-1     a perl library for manipulating da
ii  libdb3                        3.2.9-16   Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii  libesd0                       0.2.23-3   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii  libfinance-quote-perl         1.06-2     Perl module for retrieving stock q
ii  libfreetype6                  2.0.9-1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgal19                      0.19-1     G App Libs (run time library)
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2          0.16.0-1   The GNOME Canvas pixbuf library
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2                0.16.0-1   The GdkPixBuf library.
ii  libghttp1                     1.0.9-9    Gnome HTTP client library
ii  libglade-gnome0               1:0.17-2.2 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglade0                     1:0.17-2.2 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib1.2                    1.2.10-4   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome32                    1.4.1.4-3  The Gnome libraries
ii  libgnomeprint15               0.35-4     The GNOME Print architecture - run
ii  libgnomesupport0              1.4.1.4-3  The Gnome libraries (Support libra
ii  libgnomeui32                  1.4.1.4-3  The Gnome libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgtk1.2                     1.2.10-11  The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii  libgtkhtml20                  1.0.2-1    HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii  libguile9                     1:1.4-24   libraries for Guile1.4 (guile, gui
ii  libguppi16                    0.40.3-1   GNOME graph and plot component
ii  libgwrapguile1                1.1.11-5   g-warp: Tool for exporting C libra
ii  libltdl3                      1.4.2-4    A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  liboaf0                       0.6.10-2   The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii  liborbit0                     0.5.15-2   Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                      1.6.2-7    lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libwrap0                      7.6-9      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libwww-perl                   5.64-1     WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  libxml1                       1:1.8.17-2 GNOME XML library
ii  libzvt2                       1.4.1.4-3  The Gnome zvt (zterm) widget
ii  oaf                           0.6.10-2   The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii  perl                          5.6.1-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii  slib                          2d2-1      Portable Scheme library.
ii  xlibs                         4.1.0-16   X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-1  compression library - runtime

Wow!  That's a lot of dependencies!

By the way, thanks to the developers.  It looks very nice.

By the way, I notice the stand-alone html help is available only in
French.  Is there any particular reason for that?