Suse linux install failure

[Derrick Ashby]

Neil Williams wrote:

>On Tuesday 15 March 2005 5:29 am, Derrick Ashby wrote:
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>>install it on my test machine, which I did.  While I was at it I thought
>>that I would take a look at gnucash 1.11,
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Oops.  Okay, I meant 1.8.11.  Sorry about that...

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>1.8.11? The latest gnucash tarball I can find on the Australia link from 
>GnuCash downloads is 1.8.8, 18/11/2003. The USA site does have a 1.8.11, 
>dated 6th Feb 2005.
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>1.1.11 is 1998!!
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>Just what - precisely - did you download?
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>>which is so far not available 
>>via portage for my gentoo system.  Going to the gnucash web site I found
>>that there were packages for redhat, debian and maybe a couple of other
>>distributions, but not one for suse 9.2, so I downloaded the source
>>package.
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>Yes, but the missing digit is very important: 1.x.11 - ?
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>>Oops, no development environment.  I installed gcc and dependencies from
>>the dvd.
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>Looks like you missed gtk+2-devel glib2-devel
>http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-discuss/2002-12/msg00068.html
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No packages with those names in my Suse distro.

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>>This time configure proceeded for a while, but fell over 
>>claiming it couldn't find glib.  It was actually looking for
>>glib-config, and sure enough when I went looking, that script file
>>wasn't present.
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>Where did you look?
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Well, I did a File Find starting from root.

>Do you have:
>/usr/include/glib-1.2/
>or
>/usr/include/glib-2.0/
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>Is there a symlink to one of these from 
>/usr/include/glib/
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>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 2004-08-11 23:06 /usr/include/glib -> glib-1.2/
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>Then glib-config would be in /usr/bin
>/usr/bin/glib-config
>/usr/bin/glibconfig -> /usr/bin/glib-config
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Suse puts Gnome in the /opt directory.  According to info on the 
Novell/Suse website glib-config should have been in /opt/bin, only it 
wasn't.

(See http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/desktop/glib-devel.html)

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>>Clearly the rpm 
>>wasn't looking in the right places because the suse filesystem is a bit
>>different,
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>Correct.
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>>Before I try getting some help out of Novell,
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>There have been discussions about other errors raised when installing on SuSE 
>9.2 on the gnucash-user mailing list. Generally, they haven't involved actual 
>errors in the SuSE RPM.
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>>has anyone else come 
>>across this problem, and is there a "simple" fix for it?  I found some
>>info on the net that suggested that this was a gtk+/gtk 2.0
>>incompatibility.
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>URL?
>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2002-April/msg00178.html ?
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>That's old. It does, however, hint that you NEED glib-2/gtk-2 devel packages. 
>Did you install those? Doesn't sound like you did.
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See my comment above.  The error message I got out of gnucash configure 
was fairly specific about what it thought the problem was - it couldn't 
find glib (not glib2 or gtk2).  It suggested I check on glib-config, 
which I did - except it wasn't there.  The URL you found (sorry, I was 
relying on my memory - I should have searched again when I was doing the 
post) was the only reference I could turn up on the problem I was having.

>BTW. PLEASE be precise when quoting problems. That message relates to
>"problem from glib/gtk+ 1.2 to glib/gtk+ 2.0.x"
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>It's not gtk+/gtk 2.0 as you quote, it involves glib and glib-2 as well.
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>>I'm a bit reluctant to spend 
>>even more time downloading other packages that will have further
>>dependencies that will lead to the need to download further packages...
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>Then move to Debian!
>:-)
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Thanks, but actually, I'm quite happy with gentoo  :-)

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