Import module for MT940 import not found.

[Derek Atkins]

This isn't a GnuCash problem; this means that AqBanking was not
configured with the SWIFT module.  You'll have to fix that first.

-derek

Norbert Plött <norbert.ploett at nefkom.net> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> I recently switched from SuSE Linux to Kubuntu 7.04. I installed the 32bit 
> edition although I have a Intel Core Duo 4300 CPU (64 bit).
>
> I soon found out that MT940 import support is not built into gnucash in the 
> ubuntu distribution. I also found the page 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian and followed the instructions. To be more 
> precise I got gnucash-2.0.2 and libaqbanking-2.2.3 and built and installed 
> the packages as described. 
>
> There was actually an entry for MT940 import in the import menu after that, 
> but when I actually did select a file then I always got a message 
> box: "Import module for MT940 import not found." 
>
> In order to gather more information I started gnucash from the command line, 
> and got to see the following output: 
>
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:gwen(6049):plugin.c:  320: Plugin "swift" not found.
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:aqbanking(6049):swift.c:   45: GWEN DBIO plugin "SWIFT" 
> not available
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:aqbanking(6049):banking.c: 4517: Error in plugin 
> [/usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/imexporters]: No im/exporter created
>
> So I learned more about the infrastructure which provides the plugins for 
> gnucash and learned that there is a gwenhywfar library and that libaqbanking 
> depends on it and that the versions must be in agreement. This was not 
> mentioned on the webpage, by the way.
> I found out that the best match for libaqbanking 2.2.3 should be gwenhywfar 
> 2.6.1 and got these sources, built and installed them. (The version that I 
> found on my system was a little older). 
> Did not help.
>
> I looked into the sources and concluded that gwenhywfar has a sort of search 
> path and inserted a print statement to display the paths that would be 
> searched to find the swift plugin (which was in place all the time, in 
> /usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/imexporters/.
> Here is the resulting console output:
>
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:gwen(6049):plugin.c:  310: Searching 
> in "/usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/providers"...
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:gwen(6049):plugin.c:  310: Searching 
> in "/usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/providers"...
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:gwen(6049):plugin.c:  310: Searching 
> in "/usr/lib/gwenhywfar/plugins/38/dbio"...
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:gwen(6049):plugin.c:  321: Plugin "swift" not found.
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:aqbanking(6049):swift.c:   45: GWEN DBIO plugin "SWIFT" 
> not available
> 3:2007/08/25 22-17-00:aqbanking(6049):banking.c: 4517: Error in plugin 
> [/usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/16/imexporters]: No im/exporter created
>
> So it seems to me that gwenhywfar is not searching in the place where the 
> plugin is actually located but I have no idea how the search path could be 
> twisted or whether my analysis is correct. 
>
> I think that I cannot get much further on my own and that it is time now to 
> turn to the community. Anybody out there who can give me a clue what to try 
> next.
>
> Thanks for reading to this point and for any suggestions.
>
>
> Bye
>
>
> Norbert
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