[NTLUG:Discuss] GNOME and GNUCash install difficulties

[Dan Griswold]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Brannen <kbrannen at gte.net> writes:

    Kevin> Christopher Browne wrote:
    >>
    Kevin> ...
    >> 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...]  --

    Kevin> <soapbox>

    Kevin> Yes!  Loading from a CD distro and getting it customized &
    Kevin> stable is pretty easy now-a-days, IMHO.  But trying to
    Kevin> upgrade (or sometimes add) 1 package that has lots of lib
    Kevin> dependencies can be a real killer.

With Chris's and Kevin's comments, I certainly and heartily agree. In
fact, this issue I find quite irritating. After all, isn't one of the
points about Open Source/Free Software to allow one to be _less_
dependent on a commercial software distributor?

Chris, I don't have the file you mention ("doc/SuSE-6.3"). But maybe
that's because I didn't download the users-guide. Which I'm doing
right now. :%

>> 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.

Just to recall for the sake of clarity, I brought up "libpixbufloader"
because that's what an error message reported. It's quite possible,
given my lack of Linux-godhood, that I am completely wrong in my
assumption that the message means that I need a library so
entitled. Am I?

Dan


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