1.8.10+ on Suse 9.3 or release import/export?

[Thomas Spahni]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, C S wrote:

> Up and running, it's not pretty but will take awhile
> to prove out though.
>
> 1)  Tried source compile (ugh), forget it.

Hi everyone,

I have compiled gnc from source on a few different SuSE distributions and
found it the most convenient way to update.

Needless to say that you have to install all required '*.devel' packages
but this is fairly easy with yast.

First get g-wrap-1.3.4 source and compile/install separately. I run
configure from the following shell script:

#!/bin/sh
# set a few variables
LANG=
GNOMEPATH=/opt/gnome
GTK_DATA_PREFIX=/opt/gnome
export GNOMEPATH GTK_DATA_PREFIX LANG
./configure
# end of script

then make && su -c 'make install' as usual.

Then you are ready to compile gnucash. Keep adding devel packages and
libraries as long as configure complains about something missing.
Once you have a complete system, any new releases will compile easily.

I use these steps to configure gnucash on my SuSE distribution (this
works on 8.2; I have not yet upgraded to 9.3):

tar xvzf gnucash-1.8.11.tar.gz

ln -s gnucash-1.8.11 gnucash

-- then run the following script (I call it 'SuSE-gnc-config')
#!/bin/sh
CC=gcc
CFLAGS=-O2
PATH="$PATH:/opt/gnome/bin"
(cd gnucash
rm -rf config.cache
configure --prefix=/usr --enable-gui --disable-error-on-warning \
	--build=i386-linux-gnu
)
# end of script

cd gnucash
make
su -c 'make install'

Hope this helps. I do not recommend to install any rpm package which is
not made for your distribution. This means looking for trouble.

Regards,
Thomas Spahni


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, C S wrote:

> Up and running, it's not pretty but will take awhile
> to prove out though.
>
> 1)  Tried source compile (ugh), forget it.
>
> 2)  Tried Bill's suggestion.  Not any better, rpm
> dependancies are a nightmare.
>
> 3)  Found the following URL and installed on top of
> 1.8.9 with --nodeps (--upgrade fails):
>
> http://www.heidemaenner.de/thomas/suse/9.2/i586/gnucash-1.8.10-1.suse9.2.i586.rpm
>
> Profit/P&L - Good, both balances tie now
> Balance Sheet - Good
>
> Here are the errors discovered so far:
>   Blue underlines on main UI
>   Printing loses description
>   warning on startup for lib libktoblzcheck.so.1
>
> Not bad, I can tolerate things until the next Suse RPM
> or release.  If anyone else has a better way to run
> Gnucash 1.8.10+ on Suse please chime in.
>
> cs
>
> --- Bill Schmidt <wjschmidt at fuse.net> wrote:
>
> > I believe SUSE claims that Redhat rpm's can be
> > installed with YAST. I
> > haven't tried it but it might be worth a shot.
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:35:45 -0400, C S
> > <nd_stew at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone ran 1.8.10 or later on Suse 9.3?
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I swapped over from FC4 (1.8.10) to
> > Suse
> > > 9.3 only to find the same or later release of
> > gnucash
> > > wasn't available on Suse (1.8.9).  I tried loading
> > > gnucash, but net amounts and the main screen do
> > not
> > > appear right.  I assume there's no way to
> > > export/import between releases.
> > >
> > > If there's a Suse binary (1.8.10+) or detailed
> > build
> > > instructions (ugh) I'll give it a shot.
> > >
> > > cs