[GNC] Compiling and Installing Gnucash 2.6.12

[John Ralls]

Is /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf? Have you run ldconfig since building GnuCash?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Sep 16, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> here is the file/files in question
> 
> paul at paul-Satellite-S855:/usr/local/lib$ ls -l libgnc-gnome*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1939 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.so ->
> libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.so.0 ->
> libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3192456 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0
> 
> Seem to be links to a real file in the same directory that is 3.2 MB
> Paul
> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:03 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> 
>> Op donderdag 13 september 2018 04:10:35 CEST schreef Paul Schwartz:
>>> libgnc-gnome.so.0 is in /usr/local/lib
>>> 
>> Is that a real file or a soft link ? If it's a softlink, does the file it
>> points to exist ?
>> 
>> How about file permissions ? Does the user you use to run gnucash have
>> read
>> access to this file or the file it points at ?
>> 
>> Geert
>> 
>>> How do I adjust the command so it is found?
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:36 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> On 09/12/2018 10:11 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>>> Op woensdag 12 september 2018 17:50:23 CEST schreef Paul Schwartz:
>>>>>> I have made some progress. Uninstalled and removed previous gnucash
>>>> 
>>>> 2.6.19
>>>> 
>>>>>> which is the default installed in Ubuntu 18.04. Successfully did
>>>>>> ./configure && make followed by sudo make install.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Executing gnucash produces
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> /usr/local/bin/gnucash: error while loading shared libraries:
>>>>>> libgnc-gnome.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>>>> 
>>>> directory
>>>> 
>>>>>> Did I miss an argument for install or ??
>>>>>> Thanks for the help
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is the file really there ? It should be somewhere in /usr/local/lib
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Geert
>>>> 
>>>> Since I had also compiled under Ubuntu, I looked on my system to see
>>>> where it was located.  Here are my findings:
>>>> steve at stevelaptop:~$ sudo su
>>>> [sudo] password for steve:
>>>> root at stevelaptop:/home/steve# cd /usr
>>>> root at stevelaptop:/usr# find . -name libgnc-gnome.so.0
>>>> root at stevelaptop:/usr# find . -name 'libgnc-gnome.*'
>>>> ./local/lib/libgnc-gnome.so
>>>> 
>>>> See if that is on your system.
>>>> 
>>>> --Steve
>>>> 
>>>> --
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>>>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
>>>> kg7je at arrl.net
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