Installation fails, g-wrap error?

[Dave Peticolas]

Doug writes:
> On Monday 19 February 2001 05:27 pm, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> 
> The g-wrap rpm package I installed under Suse 7.0 was 0.9.4.  When I tried to
> install the RPM packages for gnucash 4.9/10 It kept asking for libguile.so.9,
> which I obtained as a rpm and installed, the libguile installed in 
> /usr/local/lib (which is part of the ld_lib path, and I set up a guile 
> environment as per the docs pointing to this directory as well.  In /usr/lib,
> libguile.so.6 is in place which is required for other packages that I am 
> currently using.  But, just to be sure, I also symlinked the 9.so package and
> moved the 6.so package to see if that made a difference.  The result was the 
> same, gnucash 1.4.9/10 (rpm) refuses to see the libguile.so.9 package.  When 
> I went to compile the source code, it came up with the error above, so I've 
> continued to use gnucash 1.4.3 which for the most part fullfills my basic 
> bookkeeping needs.  Although, I would like to see "year-end" utilities added 
> to the next version:-)  When I was running windooze, I used quicken, and that
> was one of the things I liked about, that gave me the ability to keep the 
> data file to a reasonable size.  Also, it would be nice to have a export 
> utilty to export data for tax software as well:-)  (BTW, is there any tax 
> software available for linux?)

Ok, so you were installing the rpm from ftp.gnucash.org? That rpm
was created for SuSE-6.x, which uses an older version of guile.

Richard Uschold has contributed a tax report and txf export for
gnucash. It is in 1.4.10, but I'm not aware of any SuSE-7.0 rpms
for it.

dave