RedHat 7.1 and KDE install (fwd)

[Dave Peticolas]

On 07 Jul 2001 20:17:51 -0700, James Davidson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Well I got the same result with gnucash 1.6.0 but decided to wait until
> 1.6.1 to see if it was fixed.  Unfortunately it is not.
> 
> I get the following message when running gnucash as a user:
> 
> It appears you do not have the 'slib' scheme library installed.
> You need slib2c4 or later to run GnuCash.
> 
> Obtain slib at: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html
> 
> If you have slib installed, you may need to create
> a symbolic link named 'slib' from the guile directory
> (usually /usr/share/guile) to the directory where slib
> is installed.
> 
> You may also need to run GnuCash once as root.
> 
> 
> As I have slib-2d1-ximian.4 installed I ran gnucash as root and it started up.
> But trying as a user it still produces the above response.
> 
> Any ideas?

Running gnucash as root is supposed to create the file 'slibcat'
in /usr/share/guile. You might check to make sure it is really
there and that it is world-readable.

dave