slib

[Dave Peticolas]

On 11 Jul 2001 08:15:09 -0500, Dale Alspach wrote:
> Last night installed enough of the ximian packages to be able to install
> gnucash 1.6.1 (on Redhat 7.0) However I can only run it as root. I get the
> following message when gnucash is (not) started as an ordinary 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. 
> 
> ------------
> 
> If I su root it runs and in this case much of the environment is the
> same as user and gnucash is started from the user home directory.
> I saw some old postings on your archive about this problem in
> earlier versions of gnucash but none of the suggestions seemed appropriate
> to the present case.
> 
> Is their a hidden permissions problem?

Check to make sure the /usr/share/guile/slibcat is world-readable.

dave