Kubuntu 10.04 and library path problems

[Paul Abrahams]

On Sunday, December 26, 2010 05:26:04 am Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
> The way you start gnucash here will look for it in the default path. From
> your reply to Derek it looks you still have a version of GnuCash installed
> in /usr/local/bin, which uses the wrong version of libqof. Running gnucash
> simply as "gnucash" picks up this version in /usr/local, not the one you
> installed in /opt/gnucash.
> 
> With your prefix, you should start gnucash with the command:
> /opt/gnucash/bin/gnucash
> 
> or prepend /opt/gnucash/bin to your PATH.
> 
> I don't think it matters if 2.2.9 is still installed or not in this case.


I solved the problem with two measures:

1. I did the configuration with --prefix=/opt/gnucash.

2. When the dust settled, I deleted /usr/local/bin/gnucash and replaced it 
with a symlink to  /opt/gnucash/bin/gnucash.

Once 2.4 makes it into the Kubuntu repositories, I'll sweep all this detritus 
away and install the distributed package.