Kubuntu 10.04 and library path problems

[Dennis Powless]

When do we expect 2.4 to get into the repositories for k/ubuntu etc....

D

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Paul Abrahams <abrahams at acm.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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