Problems with Gnucash and Debian

[Martin Rowe]

Hi all

Some time recently gnucash-1.4.9 broke on my Debian unstable box, 
complaining that slib wasn't installed. slib was still there, but no 
symlink to it in /usr/share/guile/1.4/, though there was one in /1.3.4/. 
It seems to be the upgrade to 1.4 that's to blame. Creating a symlink to 
slib in /1.4/ generated a slew of scheme errors when starting gnucash, so 
I put in a symlink to slibcat as well - which didn't improve matters :-(

I thought I'd try compiling 1.4.10 from scratch to see if I could get 
that going against my current set up, with the latest libguile, 
libgwrapguile2, etc,. - but I've hit problems as follows:

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mrowe/gnucash-1.4.10/src'
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/lib/glib/include 
-I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include 
-I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/gnome-xml 
-I/usr/include  -o gnucash  MultiLedger.o SplitLedger.o Destroy.o 
EuroUtils.o FileDialog.o Refresh.o gnome/libgncgnome.a   
register/libgncregister.a   register/gnome/libgncregistergnome.a   
guile/libgncguile.a   gnome/libgncgnome.a   engine/libgncengine.la   
-rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib 
-lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -ldb -lgtkxmhtml -lXpm -ljpeg 
-lpng -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm 
-lxml -lz   /usr/lib/libgwrapguile.a   -L/usr/lib -lguile -lqthreads 
-lpthread -lm    -lm
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include 
-DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include 
-I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/gnome-xml 
-I/usr/include -o .libs/gnucash MultiLedger.o SplitLedger.o Destroy.o 
EuroUtils.o FileDialog.o Refresh.o gnome/libgncgnome.a 
register/libgncregister.a register/gnome/libgncregistergnome.a 
guile/libgncguile.a gnome/libgncgnome.a engine/.libs/libgncengine.so -lm 
-rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib 
-lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -ldb -lgtkxmhtml -lXpm -ljpeg 
-lpng -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm 
-lxml -lz /usr/lib/libgwrapguile.a -L/usr/lib -lguile -lqthreads 
-lpthread -lm -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

What package is ldb in? I've hunted through the gnucash archives and 
found only a reference to a missing ldb2. I can't find an obvious 
candidate through the Debian package search site.

Is there anyone else running gnucash & Debian unstable that can give me 
some pointers in getting them to coexist? If I can't get 1.4.10 built, 
I'll try & downgrade packages until my 1.4.9 .deb installation works 
again.

Regards, Martin
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