Installation Problems

[Dave Peticolas]

Tim Boring writes:
> I'm trying to install gnucash on a SuSE 7.0 system with kernel 2.4.2 and 
> glibc 2.1.  Here is what I've tried so far:
> 
> 1. installing gnucash-1.4.9 as rpm, but this gave me a failed 
> dependencies error saying I needed guile. so I downloaded, compiled 
> (because of dependency failures w/the guile rpm), and installed guile by 
> hand, then tried installing the rpm and get failed dependency about not 
> having libguile.so.9--which is installed and resting happily (or hiding, 
> perhaps) in /usr/lib.  Maybe this has something to do with the fact that 
> I can find libguile.so.9 by ls -as /usr/lib by not if I try "find 
> /usr/lib libguile.so.9"?

Did you run ldconfig as root after installing guile?


> 2. since I was having trouble with the rpm, I thought maybe I'd have 
> better luck if I downloaded the source and installed it by hand.  Of 
> course, then I get some other dependcy error and end up installing slib 
> and g-wrap.  Once this is done, I do ./configure to configure the 
> gnucash sources and I get an error message saying it doesn't appear 
> g-wrap is installed, to make sure that it is installed and it's binary 
> is in my path.   Okay, so I uninstall and reinstall g-wrap thinking I 
> did something wrong, and this time I checked where it was installing the 
> binaries to--supposedly /usr/local/bin.  So after 'make install' for 
> g-wrap this time I go check /usr/local/bin and find that there is only 
> g-wrap-config there...no g-wrap binary!

For gnucash 1.4.x you need g-wrap 0.9.12.


> I'm at a loss at this point.  I've been working on this for two nights 
> now and am just left scratching my head.  Does anyone have any 
> suggestions?  (Or a beer?)

You might also try the SuSE site. I think they have created a 1.4.7
rpm for SuSE.

dave