gnucash pkg for Slack

[Reed Loefgren]

Derek and Susan,

Derek, it might be helpful to remember that the dependencies here are
Gnucash's, not Slackware's. Gnucash is currently being re-written for
gnome2, I believe, and that should fix a lot of the problems with
dependencies; problems that affect other distros too, if this list is any
indication. Lastly, Slackware is essentially a one-man operation and bozos
should be singular.

Susan,

Google for gnucash + Slackware. There is a website out there that covers
your perdicament with dependencies, and does a damn good job of it too.
You'll find there links to some stuff and lists of what you'll need to get
gnucash up and running. It's lengthy, but quite doable; I got it right on
the second try. Besides, you're running Slack; this sort of hoop-jumping
should be second nature to you ;). I also seem to recall a package
being built by some third party. But you have to look for it.

You can also switch to FreeBSD like I  did. You'll give up, for the time
being, a decent implementation of the JRE and flash stinks, but you could
then cd to /usr/ports/finance/gnucash, issue 'make all install' and go
have a drink.

All distros have issues. If you don't believe it search on something like
"my mandrake is broken" or "suse won't let me". You'll get the picture.


Good luck,

r
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:

> See the FAQ.  You need to pull in a bunch of dependencies from
> Slackware 8.x in order to build gnucash.  Complain to the slackware
> people about what bozos they are if you don't like it.  :(
>
> Sorry,
>
> -derek
>
> Susan <meltedtwix at binaryredneck.net> writes:
>
> > Anyone have a link to gnucash packaged for Slack 10?
> >
> > Pretty please.
> >
> > Susan
>
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