Problem with charts on report

[Derek Atkins]

Hmm..  

If "rpm -qa | grep -i guppi" returns nothing as well, then SuSE
compiled gnucash without guppi support and you should contact them.

-derek

Tales Costa <tales at ibiseng.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
> Once again thanks for you answer.
>
> Yes, when I try "rpm -ql gnucash | grep -i guppi" the only response I get is: "/opt/gnome/include/gnucash/gnc-html-guppi.h"
>
> When I try "rpm -qa | grep gnucash", the response is:"gnucash-1.8.5-40". And only that. Should I have more than one package ?
>
> When I try "rpm -ql gnucash-1.8.5-40 | grep -i guppi" the only response I get is also: "/opt/gnome/include/gnucash/gnc-html-guppi.h"
>
> regards
>
> tales costa
>
>>>I tried "rpm -ql gnucash | grep -i guppi" and got:
>>>/opt/gnome/include/gnucash/gnc-html-guppi.h
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>>>
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>>That's it?  nothing more?
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>>>I am not sure what you meant by "replace 'gnucash' with each of the
>>>various gnucash packages ...". The package I got from Suse is
>>>"gnucash-1.8.5-40.i586.rpm". I tried "rpm -ql gnucash-1.8.5-40 | grep
>>>-i guppi" and got the same result as above.
>>>
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>>  rpm -qa | grep gnucash
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>>this will list "all the various gnucash packages"  Then run the
>>"rpm -ql <package> | grep -i guppi" for each one.
>>
>>-derek
>>
>>
>>
>>>regards
>>>
>>>tales costa
>>>
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>>>
>>>>Tales Costa <tales at ibiseng.com> writes:
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>>>>>Hi Derek,
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for you answer.
>>>>>
>>>>>I am not familiar with Guppi. Is it a requirement for Gnucash ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Guppi is a graphics engine.  You can build gnucash without without
>>>>it, but then you wont get any graphs.
>>>>
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>>>>>It seems not to be present on my system. At least it's not on the
>>>>>dependencies/requirements list for Gnucash on Suse's Yast. And a
>>>>>search for guppi on Yast also brings no result.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>I suspect that SuSE includes Guppi inside the gnucash package, as
>>>>nothing else uses it.
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>>>>>So, would this mean that to use graphics with Gnucash I will need to
>>>>>install a non-suse build ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Maybe.  I dont know.  I dont use SuSE -- maybe someone else who does
>>>>can answer the question.  One thing you can try is:
>>>>
>>>>  rpm -ql gnucash | grep -i guppi
>>>>
>>>>(replace 'gnucash' with each of the various gnucash packages you have
>>>>installed).
>>>>
>>>>See if they ship a libguppi.  If they do, then I don't know what to
>>>>tell you.
>>>>
>>>>-derek
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>regards
>>>>>
>>>>>tales costa
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>It's possible suse built gnucash without Guppi..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-derek
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Tales Costa <tales at ibiseng.com> writes:
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I am having some problems for displaying  pie and bar charts on
>>>>>>>Reports.  In short, gnucash doesn't display any of the bar-chart or
>>>>>>>pie-chart graphics on the reports available. Instead display the
>>>>>>>following messages: "unable to push bar-chart"  and  "unable to
>>>>>>>display pie-chart".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Have searched for reference/answer on the list archives nor bugzilla
>>>>>>>but haven't found much.  I am using Gnucash 1.8.5 that comes with Suse
>>>>>>>9.0.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Maybe someone here can help me on this ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thank you
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Tales Costa
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>>>>>>>gnucash-user mailing list
>>>>>>>gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>>>>>>>http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
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