Installing GnuCash 2.0 on FC5

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 12 12:28:51 EDT 2006


yum install slib

-derek

Quoting "E. George Mraz" <george at bridgebygeorge.com>:

> Did the yum localinstall. The install reported an error trying to unpack
> the CPIO module in GUILE. But the final message said GnuCash was
> installed.
>
> Now if I try to start GnuCash from Applications->Office->GnuCash I see
> on the bottom of my screen "starting GnuCash", then I get a splash
> screen and the it goes away. If I start GnuCash from a terminal window I
> get the following output:
>
> [bbg at localhost ~]$ gnucash
> ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in  ("/usr/share/guile/site"
> "/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules" "/usr/share/gnucash/scm" ""
> "/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.6" "/usr/share/guile" ".")
> [bbg at localhost ~]$
>
> I been here before. This error message is the reason I tried to download
> the 2.0 version. So what do I do now?
>
> George
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:37 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> try:
>>
>>   yum localinstall gnucash...i386.rpm
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting "E. George Mraz" <george at bridgebygeorge.com>:
>>
>> > Hello List,
>> >
>> > I have trying to install gnucash on FC5 for the last 4 days. The
>> > problems and difficulties have been numerous, and their resolution has
>> > not been successful. A developer suggested I try this mailing list.
>> > So here's what I've done already.
>> >
>> > I have downloaded the rpm files from
>> > http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/2.0/FC5/i386
>> > for
>> >  1. aqbanking-2.1.0-1.fc5.i386 & aqbanking-devel-2.1.0-1.fc5.i386.rpm
>> >  2. gwenhywfar-2.3.0-1.fc5.i386.rpm & gwenhywfar-2.3.0-1.fc5.i386.rpm
>> >  3. gnucash-2.0.1-4.fc5.i386.rpm
>> > and I have done -rpm Uvh for #1 & 2 with no errors.
>> >
>> > Now when I do rpm for #3 I get:
>> > [root at localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh /packages/gnucash-2.0.1-4.fc5.i386.rpm
>> > warning: /packages/gnucash-2.0.1-4.fc5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA
>> > signature: NOKEY, key ID db2f3c83
>> > error: Failed dependencies:
>> >        libguile-ltdl.so.1 is needed by gnucash-2.0.1-4.fc5.i386
>> >        libguile.so.12 is needed by gnucash-2.0.1-4.fc5.i386
>> >        libqthreads.so.12 is needed by gnucash-2.0.1-4.fc5.i386
>> > [root at localhost ~]#
>> >
>> > So I did a find on the files, an lo and behold, they're on my system.
>> >
>> > [root at localhost /]# find -noleaf -name libguile-ltdl.so.1
>> > find: ./proc/2250/task: No such file or directory
>> > find: ./proc/2250/fd: No such file or directory
>> > ./usr/lib/libguile-ltdl.so.1
>> >
>> > [root at localhost /]# find -noleaf -name libguile.so.12
>> > find: ./proc/2250/task: No such file or directory
>> > find: ./proc/2250/fd: No such file or directory
>> > ./usr/lib/libguile.so.12
>> >
>> > [root at localhost /]# find -noleaf -name libqthreads.so.12
>> > find: ./proc/2250/task: No such file or directory
>> > find: ./proc/2250/fd: No such file or directory
>> > ./usr/lib/libqthreads.so.12
>> > [root at localhost /]#
>> >
>> > Trying to find out what packages to update I did an rpm -qf for the
>> > files and I get a message that says these guys don't belong to any
>> > package.
>> >
>> > [root at localhost /]# rpm -qf ./usr/lib/libguile-ltdl.so.1
>> > file /usr/lib/libguile-ltdl.so.1 is not owned by any package
>> >
>> > [root at localhost /]# rpm -qf ./usr/lib/libguile.so.12
>> > file /usr/lib/libguile.so.12 is not owned by any package
>> >
>> > [root at localhost /]# rpm -qf ./usr/lib/libqthreads.so.12
>> > file /usr/lib/libqthreads.so.12 is not owned by any package
>> > [root at localhost /]#
>> >
>> > Can anybody tell me what I need to do to resolve the failed
>> > dependencies? I'm at a complete loss as to what to do next.
>> >
>> > Thanks, George
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>
>



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