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

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi Derek;

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 08:11, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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

Summary: Still stuck.

I successfully perfomed "sudo yum remove gnucash-2.2.7-1.el5.i386"

then: "sudo yum install gnucash"

pm -qa | grep -i gnu | grep -i cash
gnucash-docs-2.2.0-1.el5
gnucash-2.2.7-1.el5

Now when I navigate via menus to bring up GnuCash, I see for a portion
of a second a window, and then it vanishes.

When I execute from the command line I get the window for a portion of
second and then it vanishes, but at least I get an error message:

/usr/bin/gnucash
ERROR: Unbound variable: slib:features

echo $?
1



sudo yum install Slib
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: linux.mirrors.es.net
 * base: mirror.san.fastserv.com
 * centosplus: mirrors.tummy.com
 * epel: mirror.hmc.edu
 * extras: www.cyberuse.com
 * updates: mirrors.kernel.org
Setting up Install Process
No package Slib available.
  * Maybe you meant: slib
Nothing to do
[kwolcott at localhost ~]$ sudo yum install slib
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: www.cyberuse.com
 * base: pubmirrors.reflected.net
 * centosplus: mirrors.tummy.com
 * epel: mirrors.kernel.org
 * extras: www.cyberuse.com
 * updates: mirrors.kernel.org
Setting up Install Process
Package matching slib-3a3-3.el5.noarch already installed. Checking for update.
Nothing to do
[kwolcott at localhost ~]$ sudo yum remove gnucash-2.2.7-1.el5.i386
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnucash.i386 0:2.2.7-1.el5 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                 Arch
                                       Version
                              Repository
                  Size
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 gnucash                                                 i386
                                       2.2.7-1.el5
                              installed
                  33 M

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       1 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Erasing        : gnucash


                   1/1

Removed:
  gnucash.i386 0:2.2.7-1.el5

Complete!
[kwolcott at localhost ~]$ sudo yum install slib
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: www.cyberuse.com
 * base: pubmirrors.reflected.net
 * centosplus: mirrors.tummy.com
 * epel: mirror.hmc.edu
 * extras: www.cyberuse.com
 * updates: mirrors.kernel.org
Setting up Install Process
Package matching slib-3a3-3.el5.noarch already installed. Checking for update.
Nothing to do
[kwolcott at localhost ~]$ sudo yum install gnucash
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirror.stanford.edu
 * base: mirror.san.fastserv.com
 * centosplus: mirrors.tummy.com
 * epel: mirror.hmc.edu
 * extras: www.cyberuse.com
 * updates: mirrors.kernel.org
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package gnucash.i386 0:2.2.7-1.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                  Arch
                                         Version
                                  Repository
                  Size
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 gnucash                                                  i386
                                         2.2.7-1.el5
                                  epel
                 6.7 M

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 6.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
gnucash-2.2.7-1.el5.i386.rpm


| 6.7 MB     00:54
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : gnucash


                   1/1

Installed:
  gnucash.i386 0:2.2.7-1.el5

Complete!

Thanks,
Ken