Installing Gnucash 1.6 under Mandrake 8.0

[Shane Morton]

Hi,

I notice from the postings to this mail list that some people have had 
problems getting
GnuCash 1.6 to install.

I am having specific problems trying to get it to install under Mandrake 
8.0. Specifically,
I have downloaded the GnuCash 1.6.0 source and tried to run configure 
and get the following:

   checking for GNOME-PRINT - version >= 0.21... found 0.29
   checking for gnome-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gnome-config
   Unknown library `xml'
   checking for xmlNewDoc in -lxml... Unknown library `xml'
   no
   configure: error: Could not link sample xml program

When I query what packages I have installed I get the following:

   $ rpm -q -a | grep xml
   libxml-1.8.13-2
   libxml-devel-1.8.13-2

As far as I can tell I have the latest libxml library installed. Am I 
missing something?

I have also tried installing the GnuCash 1.6.0 rpm. When I tried 
initially I got the following:

   # rpm -i gnucash-1.6.0-1.i386.rpm
   error: failed dependencies:
       libgal.so.6   is needed by gnucash-1.6.0-1
       libgnomeprint.so.11   is needed by gnucash-1.6.0-1
       libguile.so.6   is needed by gnucash-1.6.0-1

I have the following libraries installed:
   libguile.so.9.0.0
   libgnomeprint.so.15.1.9   
   libgal.so.7.0.0

with symbolic links for earlier versions pointing to these libraries. 
Could anyone please suggest what
I am doing incorrectly, or need to do to satisfy these dependencies?

So, I forced the rpm (rpm -i --force --nodeps) to install and when I try 
and run gnucash I get the following:

   $ gnucash
   gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: gnucash: undefined 
symbol: scm_async_clock

Does this mean I am missing a package/library? If so, could someone 
please tell me which one. This even occurs
when I try
   $ gnucash --version
  
Thanks for your help,
Shane