Problems with Gnucash and Debian

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Martin Rowe writes:
 > 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.

I think it's part of libc, and I think it's broken gnome packages. 
As root, find the files <foo>conf.sh in /usr/lib, search for instances of -ldb
and replace it with -ldb1.  It works for me (TM).

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

"We can build a better product than Linux" - Jim Allchin,
chief Windows Technologist, Microsoft Corporation. 
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