Problem with save as mysql [SOLVED]

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 25 January 2014 13:58:30 Momchil Ilkov wrote:
> On 01/24/2014 08:00 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Friday 24 January 2014 19:40:28 Momchil Ilkov wrote:
> >  > On 01/24/2014 06:29 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >  > > 
> >  > > Where is libdbi itself ?
> >  > > 
> >  > > 
> >  > > 
> >  > > Geert
> >  > 
> >  > I found it there:
> >  > 
> >  > zmey:/tmp# ls -lh /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ |grep libdbi
> >  > 
> >  > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91K Jan 20 23:40 libdbi.a
> >  > 
> >  > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 20 23:40 libdbi.so ->
> >  > 
> >  > libdbi.so.1.1.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 20 23:40
> >  > 
> >  > libdbi.so.1 -> libdbi.so.1.1.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63K Jan 20
> >  > 
> >  > 23:40 libdbi.so.1.1.0
> > 
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ doesn't look like default path to me.
> > Perhaps you may want to set the GNC_DBD_DIR environment variable to
> > point at the directory where the libdbd-mysql shared libraries are
> > stored.
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> Thank you Greet. Run the program with GNC_DBD_DIR=/usr/lib/dbd/
> gnucash solve the problem.

You're welcome.

I advise you to file a bug in Debian for this though. When gnucash is installed from the 
standard repository it shouldn't be necessary to specify this environment variable yourself.

So this looks like a packaging bug to me.

Geert