Dependencies

[Derek Atkins]

Brian <deusenet at increa.com> writes:

> I'm running GnuCash 1.4.1 from my Mandrake 8.0 distro
> CDROM.  I want to upgrade to v 1.8.3.  RH rpms seem
> to work on Mandrake, but to be safe, I grabbed the 
> Mandrake GnuCash v 1.8.2 rpm.  To install it, I also
> grabbed the packages it depends on, e.g. the list at:

Unfortunately GnuCash needs to be built specifically against
your Distro, so a Red Hat RPM will not work on Mandrake
or SuSE.

> http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml
> 
> slib 2d5 installed fine.
> 
> My current gnome install has lots of pieces, mostly
> v1.2 libs and other portions up to v1.4.  I guess
> I'm running v1.4 ??

Yea, which is good.. GnuCash is still a gnome-1.4 application.

> G-wrap 0.2.5 is installed, and when I try to install
> 1.3.4, it requires guile.

I would suggest that you completely un-install all existing
gnucash and g-wrap RPMs.  It will reduce your headaches
as you upgrade.

> Guile 1.4 is installed, and when I try to install
> 1.6, it requires guppi.

Wait, guile 1.6 should have no dependency on guppi...
Now, guppi might have a dependency on guile....

> I have no Guppi installed, but when I try to install
> 0.40.3, it says "libgal.so.21<>=S is needed" and
> "libguppi.so.16<>=S is needed".

I don't know Mandrake's package naming system, so I'm not
sure I can help you.  You might find libgal in either gnome-libs
or "gal" or "libgal" or something like that.  Similarly,
libguppi is also in a similarly named package.  The real
question is version skew.  It is possible that you are
attempting to install packages of different versions,
which contain different sets of libraries.

> Now I'm down in the weeds.  I don't recognize these two
> things, and they don't look like package distributions.
> Are they a small piece of something else I'm suppose to
> install?

Well, gal is a gnome library.  guppi is, well, guppi. ;)

Unfortunately I don't know what to tell you specifically
about Mandrake 8.0.

-derek

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