Gnucash on KDE

[Maf. King]

On Monday 26 Sep 2005 15:35, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Sorry if this is a FAQ but cannnot find a convincing answer.
>
> I started a fresh Debian testing installation on my laptop based on KDE.
>
> aptitude install gnucash wants to install the following prerequisites:
>
> The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
>    bonobo gconf gdk-imlib1 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data gnucash-common
>    gsfonts-x11 guile-1.6 guile-1.6-libs guile-1.6-slib imlib-base libart2
>    libbonobo2 libdate-manip-perl libefs1 libfinance-quote-perl
>    libfont-afm-perl libgal-data libgal23 libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2
>    libgdk-pixbuf2 libghttp1 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome32
>    libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgnomesupport0
>    libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkhtml1.1-3 libguile-ltdl-1
>    libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl
>    libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3
>    libmailtools-perl liboaf0 libofx1 liborbit0 libosp4 libpng10-0
>    libqthreads-12 libtimedate-perl libungif4g liburi-perl libwww-perl
>    libxml1 libzvt2 oaf slib
>
> which seems a really horrifi price to pay for one package :(
>
> Is there some simpler way of solving this ?
>
> Thank you,
> Bob

Hi Bob,

As GC is a gnome-1 app, (it is now about the only "major" app still depending 
on Gnome1),  you need to install all the libs etc. for the gnome-1 
environment.  Hence the hefty download. ;-(

Maf.