Installing SLIB

[Terry]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 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
>   

Thanks. Here's that output:

dpkg -l guile\*
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
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
un  guile                  <none>                 (no description available)
ii  guile-1.6              1.6.8-6ubuntu1         The GNU extension 
language and Scheme interpreter
un  guile-1.6-doc          <none>                 (no description available)
ii  guile-1.6-libs         1.6.8-6ubuntu1         Main Guile libraries
ii  guile-1.6-slib         1.6.8-6ubuntu1         Guile SLIB support
ii  guile-1.8              1.8.1+1-5              The GNU extension 
language and Scheme interpreter
ii  guile-1.8-dev          1.8.1+1-5              Development files for 
Guile 1.8
ii  guile-1.8-doc          1.8.1+1-5              Documentation for 
Guile 1.8
ii  guile-1.8-doc-non-dfsg 1.8.1+1-2              Reference 
documentation for Guile 1.8 (non-DFSG items)
ii  guile-1.8-libs         1.8.1+1-5              Main Guile libraries
ii  guile-g-wrap           1.9.6-3.2              scripting interface 
generator for C - Guile runtime
ii  guile-gnome0-glib      2.7.99-4               Guile bindings for GLib
ii  guile-library          0.1.2-1                Library of useful 
Guile modules

hmmm - noticed somethihng strange. slib supporrt is listed for guile 
1.6, but not 1.8.

earched synaptic for slib and guile. slib is listed only for 1.6 not 
1.8. So it would seem that slib for 1.6 only is available and installed, 
but not 1.8

Could that be the problem?? Maybe configure is looking for the latest 
version only, 1.8, and since slib isn't available for 1.8, configure is 
unable to find slib ????? Does that make sense?? Version 1.8 available 
without slib support??

Terry

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