Working on Having Gnucash Again Run

Josh Sled jsled at asynchronous.org
Tue Feb 13 22:04:47 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:51 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Josh Sled wrote:
> > Or upgrade to a distro with basic package management.  :)
> 
>    Slackware has a full set of package tools, including slapt-get and swaret.
> But, it does not contain Gnome.

Supporting gnome (and kde) was a pretty basic requirement a few years
ago, let alone today.


>    Actually, it's been more stable and easier to maintian and upgrade than
> Red Hat was in the 4.0-7.3 period. The only application that gives me pain
> is gnucash because it's the only one I use that _requires_ gnome.

I'm sure it's about as good or better than Red Hat 4.0 .. 7.3!  But
things have advanced significantly since then.  Any modern distro should
install gnucash, and every dependency it requires (and keep them
upgraded), with a single command.



On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:54 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: 
>    I have built guile-1.8.1 from source and installed it, also g-wrap-1.9.7.
> Now I'm trying to build guncash-2.0.4, but it can't see the g-wrap-2.0-guile
> which is installed; at least, the .pc is installed. And, it cannot see SLID
> which is happily ensconced in /usr/local/lib/slib/.

g-wrap-1.9.7 will not work with gnucash.  g-wrap (both 1.9.6 and 1.9.7)
should be patched to look for glib-2.0.  slib has specific versions that
do and don't work with guile and with gnucash.  You can search the
mailing list archives (both -user and -devel) for details of all this.

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