Installing SLIB

[Terry]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:19:43PM -0500, Terry wrote:
>   
>> Josh wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install GnuCash on my Ubuntu (Linux Mint) system. I'm having
>>> great difficulty installing SLIB, which is required. Can you please help?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Josh Hembree
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>>>   
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>> Not to distract, but I'm trying to compile gnucash 2.2.3 and the 
>> configure utility cannot find slib.
>>
>> Looked at the previous bug reports about this as reported by the 
>> configure utility and have created the symlinks mentioned there.
>>     
>
> what is the output of 
>
> dpkg -l guile\*slib 
>
> I *think* (but don't know) that the problem is if you have
> guile-1.8-slib installed when you should have guile 1.6-slib. 
>
> A
>   
terry at Home-Net:~/Packages/gnucash-2.2.3$ dpkg -l guile\*slib
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                   Version                Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii  guile-1.6-slib         1.6.8-6ubuntu1         Guile SLIB support

I cannot tell from that what it means?

Terry
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