gnucash won't start up

[Roger]

Thanks for the suggestion, I had already tried that via reinstall 
synaptic and from your suggestion tried it manually:

sudo apt-get remove gnucash
sudo apt-get autoremove                which cleared out other related stuff
sudo apt-get install gnucash

with no noticeable difference on either machine, i.e. same error 
messages resulted

I also compared some of the dependencies identified in 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies

and (as an aside guile needed to be = 1.8 not >= as indicated).

Anyway I checked guile and libgnomeui2 and reinstalled them to no avail.

So I am not sure where to find the libraries:

libgnc-gnome.so.0
libguile.so.12

Even though the error messages are different I can't find either library 
on either machine.

So I am still lost.



On 12-05-28 08:43 AM, Carson Chittom wrote:
> Roger<aretae at magma.ca>  writes:
>
>> I have Kubuntu 12.10 (not intentional) and gnucash 2.4.10 through the
>> repository which used to work with Kubuntu 11.04.
>>
>> Now it quits on startup with the following message:
>>
>> gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-gnome.so.0:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> When I tried it on another laptop with Kubuntu 12.04 and gnucash
>> 2.4.10 from the repository which also used to work with Kubuntu 11.04
>>
>> It didn't start either displaying a similar message:
>>
>> gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libguile.so.12: cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> Googling doesn't provide any clues so I would appreciate some help in
>> resolving these issues.
> Sounds like somehow the libraries Gnucash depends on got removed.  Probably the
> easiest way to fix this would be to uninstall Gnucash and reinstall it,
> which should automatically download and install those libraries.[1]  I'm
> not familiar with Ubuntu in particular, but you should be able to use
> its normal method for uninstalling and installing software.
>
> Alternatively, since Ubuntu is based on Debian, you could open a
> terminal window and run:
>
> $ sudo apt-get uninstall gnucash&&  sudo apt-get install gnucash
>
> [1] Of course, you could also simply track down each library Gnucash is
> complaining it can't find and install them individually.
>
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