gnucash won't start up

[Bob Plantz]

Since Kubuntu 12.10 is not yet at alpha 1 (occurs June 7), it doesn't 
surprise me that some things do not work properly. I would expect it to 
perform better after the release in October 2012.

You might try (intentionally) installing the current release of Kubuntu 
(12.04). I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and gnucash 2.4.10-12 (from the 
repositories). Works just fine.

--Bob


On 05/28/2012 06:58 AM, Roger wrote:
> 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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