Can't start Gnucash

[Paul Carroll]

Sorry to trouble you, but I'd love to try out Gnucash, yet can't start it.

Here's the final output when I run in --debug mode:

gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/home/paulc/.gnucash/utilities.scm"
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/home/paulc/.gnucash/scm/utilities.scm"
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/utilities.scm"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/utilities.scm"
gnucash: [D] "loaded file ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/utilities.scm"
gnucash: [D] "loaded file 
""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-dialog-utils.scm"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-in-directories looking for 
""qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm"" in "("/home/paulc/.gnucash" 
"/home/paulc/.gnucash/scm" "/usr/share/gnucash/scm")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/home/paulc/.gnucash/qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm"
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/home/paulc/.gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm"
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm"
gnucash: [D] "found file 
""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm"
gnucash: [D] "loaded file 
""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-guess-map.scm"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-in-directories looking for 
""qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm"" in "("/home/paulc/.gnucash" 
"/home/paulc/.gnucash/scm" "/usr/share/gnucash/scm")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/home/paulc/.gnucash/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm"
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/home/paulc/.gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm"
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-to-gnc.scm"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-in




The error I get on screen is:

Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME tp <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'Import site failed; use -v for traceback
Fatal Python error: couldn't import os
Aborted

All suggestions gratefully received



-- 
Paul Carroll
email:	pc@subantarctic.org.uk
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