[Fwd: Re: What to use for Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 ES?]

[Mark Eackloff]

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>  > I was in the same situation but I figured it out.  Have less hair now 
>  > as a result.  Since I thought I might need to do this again I kept
>  > notes.  I am attaching an OpenOffice doc that explains the
>  > dependencies, what packages (and versions) and from what RH releases
>  > to get them.  Since you have RHEL3 ES I am assuming that you have
>  > OpenOffice.  There are some comments to myself in the document
>  > concerning where I'm backing up the non-RHEL3 packages in case I need
>  > to do this again.  Ignore these.  I suggest you work from the bottom>
>  > of the list up to avoid dependancy gliches.
> 
>  > Once your up and running you can safely remove all packages with
>  > "devel" in the name.  There needed for building but not running.
> 
> I went through your list as well as I could. Since I have only the RHL9 
> CD-ROMs, a few of the files were a little old. I had to use --nodeps in 
> cases where it said it needed package xxx-1.2.3 and I had xxx-1.2.3-4 
> and such like. Then the gnucash rpm installed and mostly works, but 
> transaction report does not: grumbles about error in processing but not 
> divulging what the error might be. Now I guess I should download the 
> update rpms for RHL9 onto my RHL9 machine, scp them over to the one with 
> the CD-burner, sneakernet that over to the next, etc.
> 
> Not much fun. I really want the new machine up so I can put XP on this 
> one so I can run TurboTax. Time pressure... 8-(
> 

Ok.  There are 3 things here that I should mention.

1)  I am very new to gnucash and have not used the transaction report successfully yet.  When I try, it just reports on the particular transaction that I have selected in an account's register.  I haven't yet figured out how to report on more than one transaction.  I don't even know if it's supposed to be able to do that.  I'm clueless at the moment.  But it's not grumbling about errors in processing.  So I'm probably closer to a successful install than you are.

2)  I did not install a gnucash RPM.  I downloaded and built from the gnucash-1.8.8.tar.gz distro.  I once had the gnucash-1.8.1-*.rpm from my RHL9 CDs up and running on RHEL3.  Then I decided to upgrade to the 1.8.8 release.  Don't ask me what I did to get the 1.8.1 running.  I don't remember and didn't take notes that time.  But the document I attached with my prior post was for building from the 1.8.8 tarball under RHEL3 ES.

3)  I was not successfull in building using only RHEL3 and RHL9 rpms.  I don't know under what level of support you acquired RHEL3 but mine came with one year's Red Hat Network subscription.  You can get all the rpms you need with the subscription, including prior releases and releases that never made it into boxed distros.  That's why you see references to "RH9.0.93" and "RH9.0.93 Beta Updates" (two different releases).  I found the required packages from there when I could not find the them in either RHL9 or RHEL3.  For instance there is no Guppi-devel in RHEL3, so I had to get it from RH9.  Guppi-devel requires Guppi from RH9.  Guppi requires libglade-0.17-12.1 or higher.  The libglade in RH9 is 0.17.11.  There is no libglade in RHEL3, only libglade2 (different package).  So I found libglade-0.17-12.2 in RH9.0.93 which worked.

As you might guess, all this took a lot of persistence but I think it's working.  But you need the right packages.

As for Turbo Tax, I'm using the spread sheet program that comes with openoffice.  I'm tired of answering questions about whether I have control over off-shore drilling operations.

Good luck,

Mark