Fwd: RHEL install of GnuCash on CentOS 5.4; starts and ends with a flash

[Derek Atkins]

Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Bill;
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 22:48, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>  I then did an RHEL install of GnuCash via yum.
>>
>> Where from? I just tested the 2.2.7 EPEL version on a x86_64 RHEL 5
>> VM, and it worked OK. (I'll work on getting 2.2.9 out there; I thought
>> I had already done that.)
>>
>> What sort of errors do you get, if any?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> I don't remember now.  I read the hints displayed by configure and
> went to the Bugzilla bugs that were mentioned and I believe I found a
> link for RHEL for GnuCash and I did the the rpm and yum commands that
> were mentioned there.

HUH??  You're not supposed to do that.  You're just supposed to run:

  yum install gnucash

> The install went fine.  The GnuCash menu item is there.
>
> When I invoke it, a very quick flash of a screen appears and then
> immediately vanishes.  No error messages.
>
> Now how do I uninstall it and how do I get the "right bits"?

rm -rf / and re-install your system?

(Seriously, you can try to run "make uninstall")

> Thanks,
> Ken

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-derek

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