gnucash/python problem

Linas Vepstas linas@linas.org
Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:47:22 -0500


On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 09:30:59PM -0500, John Thompson was heard to remark:
> I just went and updated my working gnucash-1.6.2 to v1.64 and now appear
> to have completely hosed gnucash:
> 
> [john@starfleet john]$ gnucash
> /home/john/.gtkrc:1: error: unexpected character `\37', expected keyword -
> e.g. `style'
> /home/john/.gtkrc:1: error: unexpected character `\37', expected keyword -
> e.g. `style'
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> Fatal Python error: couldn't import os
> Aborted


Glurg.   Have you looked at the contents of your  /home/john/.gtkrc
file?  For whatever reason, I don't have one of these.  I'm guessing
that deleting  /home/john/.gtkrc might fix your problem ...

--linas

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