gnucash/python problem

Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com
Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:21:38 -0400


> 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

You have python-2.x installed, and Guppi (or something) is built against
python-1.5. (Or, the reverse, I suppose.)

Bill