Installing SLIB

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 03:08:36PM -0500, Terry wrote:
> 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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>>>>         
>>> 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?

it means that guile-1.6-slib is installed. So I should have asked this
instead

dpkg -l guile\*

so we could see *all* the guile stuff you have installed. 

Thanks

A
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