gnucash-2.0.3 problem

[Ariel]

I don't have the solution for you, but I have a few comments, I hope they 
help, at least a little.

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Graeme Nichols wrote:

> The rpm package gnucash-2.0.3-1.FC4.i386.rpm got built. It took a fair
> time and I saw a lot of warnings flash by that I couldn't read properly
> but there were no errors.

Next time run the command: script, then the compile, and then type exit. 
The resulting file will be called typescript, and you can check all the 
errors in it.

> When I tried to install the package, using the following command:
>
> [root at barney i386]# rpm -Uvh gnucash-2.0.3-1.FC4.i386.rpm
> rpmdb: Program version 4.3 doesn't match environment version
> error: db4 error(-30974) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database
> environment version mismatch
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30974)
> warning: cannot open Solve database in
> /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /usr/local/bin/perl is needed by gnucash-2.0.3-1.FC4.i386

> /usr/local/bin/perl exists (it is a binary file).

It could be some large problem with rpm, I don't know, I don't use rpm, 
but it looks bad. On the other hand it could simply be the issue with 
/usr/local/bin/perl - even though the file exists, rpm doesn't know about 
it since it was not installed by rpm, you installed it manually.

You could tell rpm to ignore dependencies, you could create a 'dummy' 
package containing /usr/local/bin/perl, or you could edit the gnucash rpm 
to remove that dependency. rpm is rightfully complaining that gnucash 
needs perl (does it really?), but perl is not installed (as far as rpm 
goes). Maybe install perl properly (via rpm) and then rebuild gnucash.

BTW: installing stuff manually is a good way to break package management, 
try to migrate any you have already done.

 	-Ariel