Gnucash-2.0.5 Run Error

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:

>   Sure enough, the slibcat file is gone. I have removed all of guile-1.8.x
> and re-installed guile-1.6.7. I found that there is a 'mklibcat.scm' but no
> instructions for how to run it; the implication is that it is run
> automatically when slib is installed. That does not seem to be the case
> here.
>
>   What I see now when gnucash tries to load is:
>
> ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in  ("/usr/share/guile/site"
> "/usr/local/share/gnucash/guile-modules" "/usr/local/share/gnucash/scm" ""
> "/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.6" "/usr/share/guile" ".")
>
>   Well, I installed slib in /usr/local/lib. Then I copied it to
> /usr/share/guile/site. 'require.scm' is now in /usr/share/guile/site, but
> gnucash still cannot find it.
>
>   This seems to me to be a simple fix, but I don't know quite how to tell
> gnucash that require.scm is just where it first looks for it. And, yes, I
> rebuild guncash between trials.

Try, as root:

  guile -c '(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)'

> Suggestions?

-derek

PS: If this works then please update the FAQ at 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ
Thanks.

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