What to use for Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 ES?

[Jean-David Beyer]

Robert Heller wrote:
 > Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer at exit109.com>, In a message on Mon, 01 Mar
 > 2004 14:43:41 -0500, wrote :
 >
 > JB> I was surprised that no version of GnuCash was on RHES3 ES
 > distribution JB> (unless I missed it). I tried to install GnuCash
 > from RHL 9, but it had JB> all manner of dependency problems.
 >
 > You *may* have to install various dependent RPMs.  Also, try
 > installing the GnuCash RPMS for RH 7.x.
 >
 > JB> JB> Is there a "right way" to get GnuCash into that machine? JB>
 >  JB> I went here: http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/ and they talk
 > about JB> redhat-[56789].x and stuff. I suppose redhat9.x is not the
 > way to go.
 >
 > Please post the list of deps (do a rpm -hiv --test
 > gnucash-1.8.8*.i386.rpm).

That machine is not on the Internet yet. So I did one with the one that 
comes with RHL 9, which is not 1.8.8. I could download that to this 
machine, write a CD-ROM, carry it over to the other machine, etc. 
Sneakernet. I sneakernetted the following on a floppy.

warning: gnucash-1.8.1-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
error: Failed dependencies:
	libbonobo-print.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libbonobo.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libbonobox.so.2 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libdb-4.0.so is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgal.so.21 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgconf-1.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgconf-gtk-1.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libglade-gnome.so.0 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libglade.so.0 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgnomeprint.so.15 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgtkhtml-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libguile.so.12 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libguppi.so.16 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libguppitank.so.16 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgwrap-glib.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libgwrap-wct.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	liboaf.so.0 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
	libqthreads.so.12 is needed by gnucash-1.8.1-3
     Suggested resolutions:
	compat-db-4.0.14-5.i386.rpm
	gdk-pixbuf-gnome-0.18.0-8.1.i386.rpm
	guile-1.6.4-8.i386.rpm
	libglade-0.17-12.1.i386.rpm

Luckily (I think) none of compat-db gdk-pixbuf-gnome guile or libglade 
are installed at all on that machine, so I can try to install them from
the RHEL3 CD-ROMS (4 of them) or the RHL 9 CD-ROMs without conflict. Of 
course, I do not know what they depend on, so perhaps they will not 
install either. I can try later today.

There is some stuff there already:

bonobo-activation-2.2.2-1
gnome-python-bonobo-1.99.14-5
libbonobo-2.2.3-1
libbonoboui-2.2.2-1

libglade2-2.0.1-3
pygtk2-libglade-1.99.16-8

 >
 > JB> JB> Do I go here:
 > http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ and JB> pick the
 > highest one (gnucash-1.8.8.tar.gz) and build from source? JB> JB>
 > What else will I need to download and build to get it all working?
 >
 > Probably a batch of additional RPMs.  http://rpmfind.net/ is your
 > friend.

I have found that rpmfind.net is my enemy, not my friend, and I have 
vowed never to use it again. When using stuff from there with Red Hat 5, 
6, and 6.2, I got avalanches of dependency problems and when they are 
all resolved, the system becomes flakey. So I update only with Red Hat's 
up2date. I may be a little late with some updates that way, but I never 
get dependency problems that way. Trouble is probably due to the 
dependencies being wrong either by omission (depends on particular 
version of something, but wrongly stated), or commission (claims to 
depend on a particular old version when a newer version will work).

For example, I installed RHL9's version of xosview on RHEL 3 ES. It 
works sort-of. rpm had no complaints whatever. But it segfaults 
sometimes, and several of the interrupts are indicated as always 
interrupting when I know that is not the case. Sin of omission, I 
suspect. It works perfectly well on my RHL 9 machine.
 >
 > Question:  why are you installing this on a *server*?  Or maybe the
 > question is, why have you installed a *server* distro on your
 > workstation?
 >
I installed a server distro on my workstation because it also serves a
couple of other machines. For various reasons, I need to run sendmail, 
bind, and samba on there and the best way to get that is with the ES 
version instead of the WS version. Also putting IBM's DB2 dbms on there 
and it needs IBM's Java stuff that I could get by other means, but comes 
with RHEL3 ES.

The main reason for building this new machine was to get enough 
horsepower to run DB2. Mainly IO horsepower, but the two Xeon 3.06GHz 
with 1Meg L3 cache do not hurt either. Funny watching top showing me 
there are 4 CPUs. But the 4 Ultra/320 10,000rpm SCSI hard drives are 
what will really make the difference, since the usual problem with DB2 
is that it is seek limited for hours at a time, and having 5 spindles on 
the machine instead of two should cut the seeking a lot (iff I lay 
things out right, that is).

Now one of my other machines is too slow to run GnuCash (P166 Pentium 
with 256MBytes RAM), and even this machine (dual 550MHz Pentium III 
processors, 512Megabytes RAM) is very slow bringing GnuCash up, though 
it runs acceptably once it is up. But I will reboot this machine a lot 
because I regret to say I will need to make it dual boot with Microsoft 
XP. So I prefer to keep all the "good stuff" on the new machine.

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