GnuCash 1.6.1 and Suse 7.2

[Torsten Bernhard]

On Monday 10 September 2001 10:02, Christian Stimming wrote:
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> On Monday 10 September 2001 12:21 am, Torsten Bernhard wrote:
> > I installed GnuCash 1.6.1 from rpm found on ftp.gnucash.org. Basic system
> > is Suse 7.2 professional. All libraries are in place, rpm installation
> > passes without any error message. but when I start gnucash, it exits with
> > an error message:
> > /usr/bin/gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgal.so.4:
> > cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > But libgal.so.4 is already in /opt/gnome/lib/ and is a symlink to
> > libgal.so.4.0.0 in the same directory.
>
> You could try
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib gnucash
>
> and maybe that works. Other than that, I'm also running Suse 7.2 but I got
> my rpm from
> http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/GNOMES/i386/update_for_7_2/extra.htm
>l However, the rpm there is more up to date than the one on ftp.gnucash.org
> as it requires some more package updates from the very same place. Namely:
> Guppi, gtkhtml, and from
> http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/GNOMES/i386/update_for_7_2/base.html
> : gal (which you might need to install by 'rpm -i --force' instead of 'rpm
> -U' in order not to break other library dependencies), gnome-print (you
> HAVE to run SuSEconfig after updating this one). I think that's all :-\
>
> Christian
>
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YES! Ca marche! C'est génial !
Thank your very much for the hint. 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib gnucash
did the job. Now GnuCash 1.6.1 works without any problem and I can start 
checking it out!

Thanks a lot,
Torsten


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