Unable to install 2.4.0

[Dr. Md. Aminul Islam Khan]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 15:42 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "Dr. Md. Aminul Islam Khan" <aikhan_lab at bdcom.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Congratulations to you all for the new version 2.4.0.
> >
> > I was using 2.2.9 and later 2.3.17. Meantime upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04
> > (from 9.04). Googled for help, whatever I could understand tried to use
> > it to install 2.4.0. and messed up: At one point I did:
> > apt-get purge guile, apt-get purge slib, apt-get installed them, then
> > symlinked: ln -s /usr/share/slib slib and lastly ldconfig. 
> > Then going for ./configure .... Now the message I get is:
> > configure: error: 
> >   guile does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not in the
> >   correct version range.  Perhaps you have not installed the guile
> >   development packages?  Gnucash requires at least version 1.6.7 to
> > build.
> > So tried:
> > find / -name guile which gives the followings:
> > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/guile
> > /home/aikhan/gnucash-2.2.9/src/bin/overrides/guile
> > /usr/bin/guile
> > /usr/share/guile
> > /usr/share/swig1.3/guile
> > /usr/local/libexec/gnucash/overrides/guile
> > /etc/alternatives/guile
> > /export/home/gnucash-2.2.9/src/bin/overrides/guile
> >
> > Can any good soul out there help me out?
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> apt-get build-dep gnucash
> 
Sorry to bother you. However, what I get from build-dep, is this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgsf-gnome-1-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/73.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 164kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package libgsf-gnome-1-dev.
(Reading database ... 251188 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libgsf-gnome-1-dev
(from .../libgsf-gnome-1-dev_1.14.16-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up slib (3b1-3ubuntu1) ...
Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package slib should be rebuilt with new debhelper to get trigger
support
ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
dpkg: error processing slib (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of guile-1.6-slib:
 guile-1.6-slib depends on slib (>= 3a2-3); however:
  Package slib is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing guile-1.6-slib (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgsf-gnome-1-dev (1.14.16-1ubuntu1) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
followup error from a previous failure.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 slib
 guile-1.6-slib
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
E: Failed to process build dependencies
I tried with dselect and others but without any result
regards,

aikhan

> Then make sure you only have one version of guile...  and that slib is
> configured properly.
> 
> > aikhan
> 
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> -derek
>