Installing GnuCash 2.0 on FC5

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 12 14:22:06 EDT 2006


I dont know... You're the one that destroyed your system by
installing non-FC packages.  How did you install guile-1.8?
If you used RPM then you can probably forcibly downgrade the
the FC5 RPM.   However if you installed it from source, I'm
afraid you took the loaded gun, aimed it at your own feet,
and successfully pulled the trigger.

-derek

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

> Isn't there something else I can do/try besides a complete re-install?
> It took me 48 hours to get the packages updated to current when I did
> the upgrade.
>
> George
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:58 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Wait!  Guile-1.8?!?!?!  Umm... FC5 only has 1.6.7!   If you attempted
>> to install guile 1.8 then you destroyed your system.  I recommend you
>> re-install from scratch.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting "E. George Mraz" <george at bridgebygeorge.com>:
>>
>> > It should be a fully installed FC5. I didn't do anything special during
>> > the install.
>> >
>> > I don't remember any errors installing guile. But I did try to install
>> > guile-1.8.0. I think somewhere along the line I got an error message
>> > telling me that GnuCash needed a later version of guile. I don't
>> > remember any error messages that I got during the install. I can repeat
>> > the rpm -Uvh for guile-1.8.0 again if you think it would help.
>> >
>> > George
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:36 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >> Is this a fully up-to-date FC5?  The mesage below implies that
>> >> slib is already installed.  But if guile isn't finding it, then
>> >> you've got other problems.   What errors did you get when yum
>> >> tried to install guile?  Those errors might be important.
>> >>
>> >> What do you get from:
>> >>
>> >>   ls -l /usr/share/guile
>> >>
>> >> -derek
>> >>
>> >> Quoting "E. George Mraz" <george at bridgebygeorge.com>:
>> >>
>> >> > 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
>> >> >>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>> >> >>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>> >> >>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available



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