Installing Python Bindings

[Phil Longstaff]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 16:55 -0500, ... wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that you don't have to do anything in  2.3.15 to get latest
> > python bindings.  You do need to run configure with
> > --enable-python-bindings
> > though.  I think your downloaded patch is unlikely to work with the svn
> > sources and is well out of date anyway.
> >
> >
> Working through installing gnucash 2.3.15 from source.
> 
> the process I've followed is this:
> downloaded gnucash-2.3.15.tar.bz2 to /usr/src/
> cd /usr/src/
> sudo tar -jxvf gnucash-2.3.15.tar.bz2
> cd gnucash-2.3.15/
> sudo apt-get install intltool libglib2.0-dev guile-1.6-dev libgconf2-dev
> libxml++2.6-dev
> ./configure --enable-python-bindings
> 
> I get this error that I dont know how to resolve
> 
> [snip]
> 
> checking for libxml-2.0 >= 2.5.10... yes
> checking LIBXML2_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/libxml2
> checking LIBXML2_LIBS... -lxml2
> checking for xmlElemDump in -lxml2... yes
> checking for gzopen in -lz... yes
> configure: External QOF Disabled.  Using Internal QOF Code.
> checking dbi/dbi.h usability... no
> checking dbi/dbi.h presence... no
> checking for dbi/dbi.h... no
> configure: error: Unable to find dbi/dbi.h

That's in libdbi0-dev (and libdbi0) which provide the basis for the sql
backend.

Phil