problems with 1.6.4

[Greg Woods]

Bill Gribble wrote:


> All you have to do is install a complete Gnome development system from a
> single source, like Ximian or the Gnome Packaging Project. 


It's been said here before, but it bears repeating: by far the easiest 
way to get gnucash 1.6 working is to go out and get a distribution that 
includes it out of the box. Typically, these are recent distributions 
that include GNOME 1.4 by default. I know that at least Red Hat 7.2, 
SuSE 7.3, and Debian unstable (sid) will support gnucash, and installing 
a whole distribution from the CD is going to be way easier than trying 
to upgrade GNOME in place. I know, because I have done it all three ways 
now. I started with a Red Hat 7.1 system and did the "crawl rpmfind" 
thing (using a partition that I dedicated to this, so I didn't really 
care if I screwed up the system). In that case I waa installing gnucash 
from source. As Bill mentioned, this is a very painful process, and I do 
not recommended it for anyone who isn't an experienced sysadmin. I also 
tried the "upgrade to Ximian GNOME" method (also on RH7.1). Tbis 
actually caused some things I was doing to break, and because of all the 
*.ximian.i386.rpm packages installed, I could not complete a normal 
upgrade to RH7.2 and had to do a complete reinstall. And that was the 
last thing I did: install RH7.2 from CD. This was by far easier than 
either of the other two methods and had far fewer impacts on the rest of 
the system. Really, unless you enjoy fooling around with the system for 
its own sake, just go get a distribution that already includes the stuff 
that gnucash needs.

--Greg