Cash 1.8.1 and R.H 7.3

[jack rilllman]

>From: Matthew Vanecek <mevanecek at yahoo.com>
>To: jack rilllman <jcf2001 at hotmail.com>
>CC: warlord at MIT.EDU, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>Subject: Re: Cash 1.8.1 and R.H 7.3
>Date: 16 Feb 2003 09:31:26 -0600
>
>On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:43, jack rilllman wrote:
> > Still can't get it to install.
> >
> > The version of guile is guile-1.3.4-19 and is installed in the following
> > locations in /usr/bin/guile with the libs in /usr/lib and other stuff
> > in /usr/share
> >
> > I downloaded g-wrap-1.3.4-1.i386.rpm and this happened:and tried to 
>install.
> >
> > rpm -ivh g-wrap-1.3.4-1.i386.rpm
> > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > [100%]
> > file /usr/share/guile/g-wrap.scm from install of g-wrap-1.3.4-1 
>conflicts
> > with file from package g-wrap-1.2.1-4
> > file /usr/share/guile/g-wrap/g-translate.scm from install of 
>g-wrap-1.3.4-1
> > conflicts with file from package g-wrap-1.2.1-4
> > file /usr/share/guile/g-wrap/output-file.scm from install of 
>g-wrap-1.3.4-1
> > conflicts with file from package g-wrap-1.2.1-4
> >
> > Then I tried, thinking the above messages were warnings and not errors,
> > installing gnucash-1.8.1-1.RH7.3.i386.rpm and this happened:
> >
> > rpm -ivh gnucash-1.8.1-1.RH7.3.i386.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >         g-wrap >= 1.3.4 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-1.RH7.3
> >         libgwrap-glib.so.1   is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-1.RH7.3
> >         libgwrap-wct.so.1   is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-1.RH7.3
> >
> >
> >
> > What do I do now?
> > Try uninstalling g-wrap-1.2.1-4 of forcing the install of 
>g-wrap-1.3.4-1?
> >
>
>No.  You may want to get a book on RedHat and using rpm.  I don't mean
>that facetiously--rpm is generally simple to use, if you know how to use
>it.  Anything is complicated if you don't know what to do with it,
>though.  Logically, if a package requires a newer library than one
>currently installed, you would want to use the "upgrade" option to rpm,
>and not the "install" option that you used, when installing the new
>library.  Thus, instead of "rpm -ivh...", you would use "rpm -Uvh...".
>Common sense also dictates that if you have gnucash 1.6.x installed, and
>that rpm won't let you upgrade g-wrap due to failed dependencies (i.e.,
>gnucash 1.6.x requires libgwrap.so.something), then you should either
>uninstall gnucash 1.6.x before upgrading g-wrap (preferred method), or
>upgrade g-wrap using the --nodeps option (can be dangerous if you're not
>familiar with the system).  If you don't have a version of gnucash
>installed already, though, that wouldn't be an issue.
>
>It's all about knowing how to use your package management software (rpm
>in your case), and applying a little common sense.

I used the update option and the update failed.

rpm -Uvh g-wrap-1.3.4-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        g-wrap = 1.2.1 is needed by g-wrap-devel-1.2.1-4
        libg-wrap-runtime-guile.so.2   is needed by gnucash-1.6.6-3

By uninstalling GNUcash I know I can get rid of that error.
What about the g-wrap-devel-1.2.1-4?

I have been in this situation before and found myself in a circular 
dependency
that I could not get out of without breaking something else. That is what I 
am afraid of doing here. That is why in my orginal post I ask for what steps
were taken to install GNUcash 1.8.1 on a R.H. 7.3. I still don't know what 
needs to be do done to get this thing installed without breaking something 
else.

>
>
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