GnuCash Install Problems (was: Re: (no subject))

[Alpar Juttner]

Donald D Henson wrote:

>(SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2, Synaptic 0.46)
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Try to install it directly from source. I also use SuSE 9.0 and it 
worked for me (GnuCash 1.8.8).
It isn't really a difficult task. After downloading and unpacking the 
.tar.gz file, you only have to start the following commands from the 
root of the unpacked directory tree (it isn't necessary to be root, the 
3th command will ask you for the root password):

./configure
make
su -c 'make install'

The first command may fail if it requires something which isn't 
installed. In this case start 'YaST2->Software->Install and Remove 
Software'. With the 'search' button you can easily find the required 
package (don't forget to turn on the 'Search in Provides' as well as 
'Search in Names'). Then repeat the ./configure command.

I did't have to install packages other than those was shipped with SuSE 
9.0 CD's.

I found that ./configure looks for the installed packages in a quite 
intelligent way.

An alternative approach: First install the gnucash version provided by 
SuSE 9.0 (this installs each required packages), then install the newer 
version from source as above. In this case you will have two
version of gnucash, but I'don't think it causes problems. (The path for 
the new version is /usr/local/bin/gnucash)

Alpar

>I just used synaptic to download GnuCash 1.8.7-4. Quite a few
>dependencies were installed at the same time, again by Synaptic.
>However, when I try to run GnuCash, using the terminal command
>'gnucash', I get the following errors:
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>ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in  ("/usr/share/guile"
>"/opt/gnome/share/gnucash/guile-modules" "/opt/gnome/share/gnucash/scm"
>"" "/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.6" "/usr/share/guile"
>".")
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>It appears that something is not installed correctly. Can anyone guide
>me to a solution? (I really need to insert some accounting data.) Any
>help will be appreciated.
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>Don Henson
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