Upgrading to 1.8.10 - need help

[Derek Atkins]

"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:

> Something to try when SuSE is being awkward with the packaging is to use the 
> --force and --nodeps options to rpm. (YaST uses them, IIRC)

Uh, bad advice alert.  You should never use --nodeps unless you really
know what you're doing.  The dependencies exist for a REASON, and
ignoring them will USUALLY get you into trouble.

> In general, using these options are not a particularly good idea, and don't be 
> surprised if things don't work exactly - for example, if you have forced the 
> install of GC, without having the openhbci libs on your system, then 
> obviously, you shouldn't expect hbci links to your bank to work - and 
> *possibly* could lead to crashes...

It's worse than this -- if you have the wrong version of guile, or
gtkhtml, or guppi, or whatever, gnucash _just wont work_.

-derek

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