gnucash won't start up (Solved for 12.04)

[Roger]

Hi Derek,

Thanks for the info I will try that.

Roger

On 12-05-29 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Roger<aretae at magma.ca>  writes:
>
>> For Kubuntu 12.04 the following dependencies (contrary to what I
>> understood) must be met:
>>
>> guile-1.6
>> guile-1.6-slib
>>
>> must be installed even if later versions are present.  I thought the
>> dependency is supposed to be>= guile-1.6 rather than = guile-1.6.
> The dependency>= guile-1.6 is based on the source code.  The dependency
> == guile-1.6 is COMPLETELY based on the *binary*.  GnuCash must be run
> against the EXACT version of all the dependencies against which it was
> built.
>
> If you're building from source, then yes, you can use 1.8.  But if
> gnucash was built against 1.6 then it must be run against 1.6.   Same
> thing goes for the Gnome/Gtk dependencies.
>
>> With respect to 12.10, I am not sure but I think the problem may be
>> with the OS as it may be looking for the libraries in /usr/lib and
>> can't find them in /usr/lib/gnucash.
> Yes, the problem is definitely with the OS, and with missing
> dependencies.  However it has nothing to do with /usr/lib
> v. /usr/lib/gnucash.  The issue is that gnucash is trying to load a
> library/module from /usr/lib/gnucash which itself is trying to load a
> library from /usr/lib (e.g. libgnome), but that dependent library isn't
> available.  As a result, the /usr/lib/gnucash module fails to load.
> Alas, it only shows the module failure, not the issue about the missing
> dependent library.
>
> You can use 'ldd' on the gncmod library to see what might be missing.
>
>> Roger
> -derek
>
>> On 12-05-28 07:10 AM, Roger wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
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