problems compiling gnucash

Robert Graham Merkel rgmerk@mira.net
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:21:29 +1000


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:30:28 Jeffrey Fogel wrote:
> I am running Red-Hat 7.1 and had Gnucash 1.4 working
> fine until I upgraded to ximian-gnome 1.4.  At this
> point, I tried to install gnucash 1.6.2 and have been
> unable to succeed (either with RPM's or by compiling
> the source).  When I try to install with the RPM's, I
> get the following:
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	libgnomeprint.so.15   is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
> 	libgtkhtml.so.9   is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
> 	libguile.so.6   is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
> 
> All of the above libraries are installed:
> rpm -qa |grep guile -> guile-1.4-ximian.9
> rpm -qa |grep libgtk -> libgtkhtml13-0.10.1-ximian.1
> rpm -qa |grep gnomeprint ->
> libgnomeprint11-0.25-ximian.6
> 
> 
> When I try to compile the source, I get the following
> error while running ./configure:
> 
> checking whether guile works... no
> configure: warning: Can not find Guile on this system
> checking for gnome-config... (cached)
> /usr/bin/gnome-config
> checking for GNOME-PRINT - version >= 0.21... did not
> find any version
> configure: error: GNOME-PRINT not found or wrong
> version
> 
> and then it goes back to a prompt.  Any help that
> anyone can give me in solving either of these problems
> so that I am able to install gnucash will be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.

Have you installed the corresponding -devel packages for these
libraries?  If not, you'll need to.

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