Cees van de Griend wrote:
You have 2 options: 1 - install the .rpm's for the missing libraries 2 - install gnucash by source.
Option 2 isn't much difficult than 1.
1 - tar xvzf <source>.tar.gz 2 - cd <source> 3 - ./configure 4 - make 4 - make install
Yes, that sounds easy, but if I try I get: /home/wybo/tmp/gnucash-1.1.26>./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for swig... no configure: error: Cannot find Swig. Try using the --with-swig flag. /home/wybo/tmp/gnucash-1.1.26>./configure --with-swig loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for swig... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for deflateEnd in -lz... no checking for jpeg_read_scanlines in -ljpeg... yes checking for png_read_image in -lpng... no checking for XpmReadFileToXpmImage in -lXpm... yes checking for XmHTMLTextScrollToLine in -lXmHTML... no checking for nana.h... no checking for L_buffer_create in -lnana... no checking for readline in -lreadline... no checking for guile... checking for guile... configure: error: Cannot link with guile. Do you have guile 1.3 installed? /home/wybo/tmp/gnucash-1.1.26>locate libguile.so /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libguile.so /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libguile.so.4 /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libguile.so.4.0.0 /usr/lib/libguile.so /usr/lib/libguile.so.4 /usr/lib/libguile.so.4.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libguile.so /usr/local/lib/libguile.so.3 /usr/local/lib/libguile.so.3.0.0 /home/wybo/tmp/gnucash-1.1.26> -- Hartelijke groet, Wybo Dekker ___________________Servalys Analytical Chemistry Services__________________ wybo@servalys.hobby.nl | Deilsedijk 60 | tel +31-345-652164 www.hobby.nl/~servalys | 4158 CH Deil, The Netherlands | fax +31-345-652383 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>