Nothing works on Red Hat

Chris Lyttle chris@wilddev.net
30 Nov 2002 13:37:21 -0800


On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 13:25, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
> 	I d/l the 1.72 version and tried to load it on Red Hat 8 and now 
> I'm getting used to this. It needs a bunch of files to even RUN!!! This 
> is what I got:
> 
> [root@bucket karl]# rpm -i gnucash-1.7.2-1.i386.rpm 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         g-wrap >= 1.3.2 is needed by gnucash-1.7.2-1
>         libguile.so.6 is needed by gnucash-1.7.2-1
>         libgwrap-glib.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.7.2-1
>         libgwrap-wct.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.7.2-1
> [root@bucket karl]# 
> 
> These 4 things may or may not be on the cd-rom's of Red Hat 8 but if the 
> the developers of gnucash expect anyone to use it, you better ship with 
> the rpm what is needed. 
> 

The rpm's are for RedHat 7.x only, not 8.0. We will not be producing
rpm's for 8.0 until the 1.8 release. I suggest you continue to use 1.6
stable if you are unfamiliar with compiling from rpm source files.

Chris
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