gnucash-2.0.1 RPMS for RHEL 4 and Fedora Core 5

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 8 15:30:15 EDT 2007


Quoting Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> writes:
>>
>>>> Hopefully Bill will answer you.
>>>>
>>> Why bother with RHEL4 at this point? If the rpms are not done for 
>>> it by now,
>>> why not concentrate on RHEL5 that is already out there?
>>
>> Because some people are still using RHEL4 because it's still
>> supported by Red Hat?  Because some people CAN'T upgrade
>> right away?  And because 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 are really buggy
>> and 2.0.5 is much better?
>>
>> -derek
>
> Well, sure. I am still running RHEL3, and GnuCash 1.8.8 that I managed to
> get working by getting missing parts from RHL9 and Fedora. And that was all
> with rpms. But it took forever to get that running. Like over a month, with
> a lot of help on this list. And Red Hat still supports RHEL3 and will for
> about 3 more years.

http://people.redhat.com/notting/gnucash/RHEL-3/

> However I would like to upgrade to RHEL5 around now, and upgrade to GnuCash
> 2.0.5 at about the same time. Basically, when I upgrade to RHEL5, the old
> GnuCash will no longer work (I am pretty sure), so I will have to use the
> new. And I cannot have GnuCash down more than a couple of weeks. So the
> rpm's for RHEL5 would be more useful to me. For that, it appears I will need
> to compile the lot from source. And I have not even found the dependency
> list for those. Where might it me?

README.dependencies

-derek

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