RPM not working?

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Mon, 02 Oct 2000 15:44:43 -0700


Chris Bamford writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Is the gnucash 1.46 RPM broken?  I have installed it on Red Hat
> 6.2 and when I run it, I get:
> 
>   chris% gnucash --version
>   It appears you do not have the 'slib' scheme library installed.
>   You need slib2c4 or later to run GnuCash.
> 
>   Obtain slib at: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html
> 
>   If you have slib installed, you may need to create
>   a symbolic link named 'slib' from the guile directory
>   (usually /usr/share/guile) to the directory where slib
>   is installed.
> 
>   You may also need to run the following command as root:
> 
>     guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"
> 
> On closer inspection, there are 2 symlinks in /usr/share/guile called
> "slib" and "slibcat" which both point to non-existent directories 
> (../../lib/umb-scheme/slib and ../../lib/umb-scheme/slibcat).
> Furthermore, there is no "umb-scheme" directory anywhere on my system ..
> 
> Is there a quick solution to this does anyone know?

Looks like you need to install the umb-scheme package.

dave