Upgrading to 1.8.10 - need help

Dan Black philippines at charter.net
Wed Dec 22 09:21:42 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:03, Divakar R wrote:
> On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 01:32, Dan Black wrote:
> > You will need an rpm for SuSE not the Red Hat rpm.
> >
> > If you search from rpm.pbone.net, you can at least find a 1.8.8 rpm for
> > SuSE 8.2.
> >
> 
> Thanks for your response. I tried the RH rpm among others available for 
> version 1.8.10 since SuSE rpms are not available. I have tried a few 
> combinations of rpms of gnucash, g-wrap and guile. I run into circularly 
> irreconcilable dependency failures. Totally confused. Surprisingly, the 
> original install of gnucash 1.8.0 by SuSE 8.2 dos not have g-wrap. Either way 
> trying to track down suitable rpms for all the deps listed on the gnucash 
> install page has been an exercise in futility.
> 
> Tried upgrade to 1.8.8 using the SuSE 8.2 rpm from rpm.pbone.net:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh --test gnucash-1.8.8-0.pm.6.i586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         openhbci >= 0.9.13 is needed by gnucash-1.8.8-0.pm.6
>         gnucash-docs is needed by gnucash-1.8.8-0.pm.6
>         libopenhbci.so.12 is needed by gnucash-1.8.8-0.pm.6
> 
> # rpm -Uvh --test gnucash-docs-1.8.3-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         gnucash >= 1.8.0 is needed by gnucash-docs-1.8.3-0.pm.0
> 
> Installed gnucash-1.8.0 through YaST2
> 
> # rpm -Uvh gnucash-docs-1.8.3-0.pm.0.i586.rpm
> gnucash-docs                ##################################################
> 
> # rpm -Uvh --test openhbci-0.9.13-1.i586.suse82.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libopenhbci.so.6 is needed by gnucash-1.8.0-30
> 
> # rpm -e --test gnucash
> error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
>         gnucash >= 1.8.0 is needed by gnucash-docs-1.8.3-0.pm.0
> 


Instead of trying to install them one at a time, install them all at one
time.

rpm -options file1 file2 file3 ...

I don't think the files need to be in any order on the command line.

Dan



> :-e
> 
> I give up unless someone has a suggestion? Installing from source is not an 
> option I would like to try due to my limited knowledge. My hats off to the 
> developers who are maintaining such a complex software. OTOH, is simplifying 
> installation by reduced deps somewhere on the developement map or is gnuCash 
> install to forever be in the realm of the distro makers and other gurus?
> 
> Merry Christmas to all.
> 
> 
> 
> > Dan
> 
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 12:16, Divakar R wrote:
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > I am running gnuCash 1.8.0 that came with SuSE Linux 8.2. I had
> > > unsuccessfully tried earlier to upgrade to 1.8.9 and would now like to
> > > try again, to 1.8.10. Here is my first attempt:
> > >
> > > 1. Downloaded gnucash-1.8.10-1.RH7.3.i386.rpm; tried install with YaST2
> > > and got failed dependencies: g-wrap>=1.3.4, libgal.so.19,
> > > libgtkhtml.so.20, libguile.so.6, libgwrap-glib.so.1, libgwrap-wct.so.1,
> > > libqthreads.so.0.
> > >
> > > 2. Tried to install g-wrap-1.3.4 and got failed dependencies
> > > libguile.so.9 and libqthreads.so.0
> > >
> > > 3. Checked with rpm -qi guile, says I have guile 1.6.2-15 already
> > > installed that provides libguile.so.12 and libqthreads.so.12
> > >
> > > I don't understand. Do I need to downgrade guile so as to get
> > > libguile.so.6 instead of libguile.so.12? However, g-wrap requires
> > > libguile.so.9?? If someone still using SuSE 8.2 has upgraded to 1.8.10, I
> > > would appreciate some pointers to the correct rpms to be loaded in the
> > > correct order.
> > >
> > > I am using gnuCash for my personal accounts and am quite happy with it,
> > > but would like to upgrade to 1.8.10 to try out the access to quotes for
> > > Indian Mutual Funds, as stated in the 1.8.10 announcement.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Divakar
> >
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