gnucash 2.2.9 fails configure for guile, looking for 1.6, cannot find guile, yet I have guile 1.8

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> writes:

>> Why not just use the distro's gnucash package?
>> * All recent versions of Fedora have 2.2.9:  yum install gnucash
>> * In CentOS you can get gnucash from EPEL
>> * In Debian/Ubuntu there's a 2.2.9 on launchpad, or you can pull all
>>  the build dependencies via:  apt-get build-dep gnucash
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken Wolcott
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
>
>   I grabbed the Slib that was offered in the bug report.
>
>   I then found how to get the RHEL version directly and installed it.

Once you installed via non-RPM you've just created a non-maintainable
machine.  Who knows what uncontrolled files are still there now?

Seriously:

Install EPEL
yum install gnucash

Or just install Fedora.   CentOS is about 3 years old.

> Ken

-derek

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