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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Derek;

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 08:04, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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

  No, it was an rpm :-)  Not that bad about mixing tarballs and rpms :-)

  how to uninstall the rpm? sudo yum remove gnucash?

  How to install EPEL?

sudo yum install EPEL
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirrors.xmission.com
 * base: centos-distro.cavecreek.net
 * centosplus: mirror.5ninesolutions.com
 * epel: mirror.hmc.edu
 * extras: mirror.5ninesolutions.com
 * updates: mirrors.netdna.com
Setting up Install Process
No package EPEL available.
Nothing to do

Thanks,
Ken