Multi-currency and 1.9.4 installation

[Dan Black]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:36 +0800, Wouter van Marle wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:53 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Quoting Wouter van Marle <wouter at squirrel-systems.com>:
> > 
> > > I'd love to test the multi-currency things, but I can't install the
> > > 1.9.4: Mandrake does not support glibc-2.4 yet. And I'm not going to
> > > take any risks hosing my complete system (I'm running Mandrake 10.1; the
> > > latest release 2006.0 has glibc-2.3.5 or so) just to try out some
> > > features in an unstable release, sorry :)
> > >
> > > Any way to install this without the glibc-2.4 requirement?
> > 
> > Nope.  glibc-2.4 is well over a year old..  It was in FC3 and RHEL4
> > which were released well over a year ago (FC5 has already been released!)
> > There's already lots of complaints about having to support glibc/gtk-2.4
> > instead of 2.6!
> > 
> > Try converting to Mandriva?
> 
> Mandrake == old name of Mandriva.
> I was also rather surprised to not find glibc 2.4... will try again
> later. I guess it's in the cooker then.
> 
> My box at 10.1 works, got trouble with my printer trying out 10.2, and
> for the rest it's "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!
> I'll wait for the 2.0 release of GnuCash then.
> 
> Wouter.

There is the option of downloading/installing VMware Player. Then
downloading a prebuilt appliance running Fedora Core 5 and try out 1.9.4
under FC5 without risk of messing up your Mandriva installation. The
virtual machines can be found here:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html


Dan