Gnucash on SuSE9.3 (gal)

Michael mn_gc at gmx.de
Mon Nov 14 14:38:12 EST 2005


Thanks,

after installing esound-devel-0.2.35-8 from SuSE 9.3, I was able to  run 
configure...

Michael
 

Mark Johnson wrote:
> You are missing libesd.so.  I can't say where to get that for Suse, 
> but my Slackware system has such a library in esound-0.2.36-i486-1.  
> Its description is:
> esound: esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon)
> esound:
> esound: EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, is a server process that 
> mixes
> esound: several audio streams for playback by a single audio device. For
> esound: example, if you're listening to music on a CD and you receive a
> esound: sound-related event from ICQ, the two applications won't have to
> esound: jockey for the use of your sound card.  Install esound if 
> you'd like
> esound: to let sound applications share your audio device.
> esound:
>
> There is also another libesd.so in another package (libao), but this 
> does not appear to be the correct one (due to the install path).
>
> This is surprising: I didn't think gnucash supported sound.  Perhaps 
> it is only that one of its dependencies depends upon this, and it is 
> not, in fact, used by gnucash.
>
> Mark



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