Installing GnuCash 2.0 on FC5

E. George Mraz george at bridgebygeorge.com
Tue Sep 12 12:35:56 EDT 2006


Did the yum install slib. Here's the output, and the start results are
the same.

[root at localhost packages]# yum install slib
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
jpackage-generic
[1/6]
flash
[2/6]
core
[3/6]
jpackage-fedora
[4/6]
extras
[5/6]
updates
[6/6]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root at localhost packages]#

Now what?


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:28 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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