1.8.10+ on Suse 9.3 or release import/export?

C S nd_stew at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 30 18:45:54 EDT 2005


Thomas, thanks for the great help.  I'm up and
running, and yes my profit to P&L cross-foots, despite
some issues.  

Guppi was a little tough.  I first removed 1.8.9 and
1,8.10 to cleanup RPM only to find the Guppi RPM hard
to find. I then reinstalled 1.8.9 to get Guppi. 
Reinstalling 1.8.9 didn't harm the RPM database once
1.8.11 was laid in.  Tried to stick with 9.3 RPM's
whenever I could find them.

For those interested I tried to summarize what I did
below:

PACKAGES TO INSTALL (Suse release)

g-wrap-1.3.4.tar.gz
glib-devel-1.2.10-586.i586.rpm 9.1
gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.7-666.i586.rpm 9.1
gtk-devel-1.2.10-877.i586.rpm 9.1
orbit-devel-0.5.17-328.i586.rpm 9.1
imlib-devel-1.9.14-180.8.i586.rpm 9.1
libxml-devel-1.8.17-374.i586.rpm 9.3
db1-devel-1.85-89.i586.rpm 9.3
gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.22.0-67.i586.rpm 9.3
gnome-print-devel-0.37-4.i586.rpm 9.3
libglade-devel-0.17-234.i586.rpm 9.3
gal-devel-0.24-218.i586.rpm 9.3
gtkhtml-devel-1.1.10-206.i586.rpm 9.3
libghttp-devel-1.0.9-649.i586.rpm 9.3
oaf-devel-0.6.10-441.i586.rpm 9.3
bonobo-devel-1.0.22-276.i586.rpm 9.3
gnucash-1.8.11.tar.gz 9.3

ISSUES (descending severity)

Printing loses account description.

Blue underlines on main UI.

Couldn't locate a gttp_enable_ssl either.

Among minor startup messages was:
  gtkrc:37: error: unexpected identifier
`gtk-alternative-button-order', expected keyword -
e.g. `style'

SUMMARY

Toughest and lengthiest part was just finding the
right packages.  All in all I can live with most of
the issues, though it would be nice to get a decent
report.  Thanks again Thomas and for the education on
build gnucash.

cs

--- Thomas Spahni <tsp at lawbiz.ch> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 


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