Unable to install 2.4.0

[Md. Aminul Islam Khan]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Tommy Trussell
<tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dr. Md. Aminul Islam Khan
> <aikhan_lab at bdcom.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
>
> There are packages that build-dep doesn't catch -- look carefully at
> the additional packages to install in the wiki instructions:
>

>  http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_.28Lucid_Lynx.29
>
> Hi,
Thank you for you help.
I did fresh install ubuntu 10.04, and as above.
Now 2.4.0 works.

aikhan

If you are not interested in the database backend you can leave out
> the libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql} package. (If you DO want to use the
> database, the curly braces indicate you choose one of the options,
> depending on which database backend you want to use.)
>
>

> Also note you need to create a softlink to slib. I don't remember the
> missing softlink causing an error in the package manager, however. If
> it's true, then it's a bug that needs to be reported against the
> package.
>
> If you continue to have trouble with apt complaining about errors, be
> sure to check to be sure you don't have an odd repository  -- the
> Software Sources tool should only show Lucid repositories, and you can
> corroborate it by looking in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
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