RedHat 7.1 and KDE install (fwd)

[Stephen Walton]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001, Bill Gribble wrote:

> From the Gnucash web site, you need to install the RPMs for 'guppi',
> 'g-wrap', and 'gnucash'.  Make sure you get the RPMs that correspond
> to the version of Guile you have installed; if you get Ximian GNOME,
> your Guile will be upgraded to ver 1.4, but from the GNOME Packaging
> Project you'll still have ver 1.3.4.  There are separate directories
> on the gnucash ftp site for redhat-7.1 and redhat-7.1+guile-1.4.

I followed these instructions carefully.  In particular, I installed gnome
using 'lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sudo sh' on a RedHat 7.1 system
installed as a KDE workstation.  I then got the g-wrap, Guppi, and gnucash
RPM's from the redhat-7-guile-1-4 directory and installed them with no
missing dependencies.

However, gnucash 1.6.0 won't start;  it complains that slib is missing,
which it is not.  slib-2d1-ximian.4 is installed, and there is a symlink
from /usr/share/guile/slib -> /usr/share/guile/1.4/slib .  If I manually
start guile and type "(use-modules (ice-9 slib))" I don't get any error
messages.  What gives?

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Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
California State University, Northridge
stephen.walton@csun.edu