[NTLUG:Discuss] GNOME and GNUCash install difficulties

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 31 May 2000 21:49:56 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Dan Griswold <dgriswol at post.cis.smu.edu>  said:
> Kyle,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions. 
> 
> >>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Davenport <Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com> writes:
> 
>     Kyle> Suse uses rpm's too.  Not sure why your going to all the
>     Kyle> trouble when all you have to do is "rpm --rebuild
>     Kyle> package.src.rpm".  I find rpm an essential system management
>     Kyle> tool, beyond just installing software.
> 
> The reason why I decided to compile the sources was because I thought
> I had to. It says on the GNOME web site that binary packages are
> available for SuSE 6.3 or 6.4, but I'm using 6.1.

There _is_ a document in the docs tree that suggests what is needed
to get GnuCash installed on SuSE.

Look, in your source tree, at:
   doc/SuSE-6.3.txt

It lists what packages will need to be installed; it does indicate
that stuff needs to be added that you'll likely need to get from 
the SuSE 6.3 package list.

>     Kyle> I have a very recent gnumeric that I installed myself,
>     Kyle> version .52, and it does not use libpixbufloader.  Perhaps
>     Kyle> an incorrect compile option?
> 
> That certainly could be. But I didn't use any extra compile
> options. BTW, what is libpixbufloader?

I'm running GnuCash atop Debian, and see no such library there.

>     Kyle> Just a wild guess, since you must be far into it by now, but
>     Kyle> some tar.gz packages will use prefix "/usr/local" or even
>     Kyle> "/opt" instead of "/usr" by default.  If you don't have all
>     Kyle> your search paths set up correctly, like in the Makefile's
>     Kyle> and /etc/ld.so.conf, programs will not find things.
> 
> I'll look into that.

I don't this is likely to be of much assistance; you should instead
look to the doc file described above that indicates the set of SuSE
packages for GNOME that need to be installed.  That is almost certainly
going to be the easiest way to cope with this.  Second easiest might
be to look at the Helix GNOME release, and look for analagous
packages for SuSE at the <http://www.helixcode.com/> web site.

That still may leave some inconvenience in trying to retrofit to 
SuSE 6.1.  This maybe SuSE's sign that you need to upgrade to 
"6.newer."

[Does it irritate anyone else that so many Linux systems are 
nearly as slavishly dependent on regular version upgrades as is true
for the moves between non-interoperable versions of MS Office?  Off
the soapbox...]
--
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