does gnucash really install?!?!!?!

[Derek Atkins]

Jake Knobloch <jake at uptimecomputing.com> writes:

> Ok, I've had a nap and I'm not so cranky now.  I am really hoping I can get 
> this thing to work.  I am using gnome-core-1.4.0.4 with my slackware 8.0 
> install.  When I type 'gnucash' I get:
> 
> knobby at housebox:/$ gnucash
> ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:
> ERROR: file: "libgw-gnc", message: "/usr/lib/libguile.so.9: undefined symbol: 
> qt_error"
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Did you perhaps change the version of guile mid-stream?  Or did
you download a binary package of, say, gnucash or guppi?

-derek

> On Monday 24 February 2003 18:00, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:27, Jake Knobloch wrote:
> > > Only libxml2.  I just dug around and found and old libxml 1.8 and finally
> > > got the thing to compile.  Thanks for the suggestion.  Now I get some
> > > *(%#&%# error when I try to run the thing.  I would post the error, but
> > > by now I am so fed up with gnucash that I have decided to cut my losses
> > > and try to forget that I ever heard about it in the first place : ).
> >
> > You should realize that Gnucash is a GNOME 1.4 app, not a GNOME 2.0
> > app.  If you have a pure GNOME 2.0 desktop, then Gnucash will not work,
> > most likely.  This is documented in the README:
> >
> > ############
> > Dependencies
> > ------------
> >
> > The following packages are required to be installed to run GnuCash:
> >
> >   Gnome 1.4: see www.gnome.org for more information.
> >
> >
> > There is currently 1 person working on the GNOME 2.0 port efforts.
> > You're welcome to join, or at least try to get it working on a pure
> > GNOME 2.0 system.  Your efforts and experiences would be well-received
> > and appreciated.
> >
> > Whatever your decision, good luck.
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