gnucash/python problem

[John Thompson]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> 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 ...

I just tried that.  No joy.  I'd try one of the pre-compiled
gnucash packages but I'm using glibc2.1 and all the precompiled
ones seem to want glibc2.2

What are the appropriate values for PYTHONHOME, anyway?  I'm just SWAG-ing
that "/usr/lib/python2.2:/usr/bin" is what it wants.  Anybody know for
sure?  And is there perhaps a way to configure python so it can find those
damnable modules that I know are there but it refuses to recognize?  How
'bout gnucash itself?  Does it have any configuration files I can load up
with the proper values?

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-John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)