"Irronicall named", "Viscious Circle", or "I could be wrong"

[Linas Vepstas]

Hi,

You really need to take this up on gnucash-user at gnucash.org

--linas

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:28:14AM -0600, Bill Totman was heard to remark:
> Hello,
> 
> In my attempt to install the seeming appropriately name 'Lil Devil', I 
> received on my Redhat 8.0 rpm system a failed dependentcy for 'g-wrap 
> 1.3.4-1.'  So off to rpmfind.net I went and found the g-wrap srpm (which 
> came up with compile errors: the 'guile' package being mentioned) and on 
> the second visit I used the rawhide flavor.  It, in turn, complained of 
> not having 'libguile.so.12' and 'libqthreads.so.12'. Off to rpmfind.net 
> again and another rawhide flavored package: guile 1.6.0-3.  Back at the 
> command line; gnome-games, as it turns out, had to be sacrificed because 
> of a dependentcies on 'libguile.so.9' and 'libqthreads.so.9' (you might 
> already guess where this is going). Once gnome-games was gone, the new 
> guile installed, and g-wrap introduced; gnucash 1.7.8, the 'Lil Devil', 
> complained of needing 'libguile.so.9' and 'libqthreads.so.9'!  What's 
> with this viscious circle!?
> 
> I must confess, however, that I did not try having (or looking for) the 
> g-wrap that came with Red Hat 8.0,  I also realize that part of my 
> problem could simply be steming from the use of the Rawhide packages.  I 
> guess I'll poke around some more and see what I get.  Any suggestions or 
> corrections are absolutely welcome.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> P.S. GnuCash is by far one of my favorite programs of all time.  One 
> reason is that your willing to stretch the user into using something 
> that is safer than other methods: the double entry method.  Another is 
> that it really is easy to use.  I am also excited about the OFX support.

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