[SuSE Linux] trying to install gnucash under SuSE Linux 6.0... only problems
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Hi, I tried to install the gnucash binary gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm (there seems not to be a binary version for version 26) and I got: % rpm -i gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libreadline.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libguile.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libXmHTML.so.1.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 even though I have libguile.so.3 and libXm.so.1 in /usr/local/lib. libreadline.so.3 lacks indeed, but I could not install it from its rpm: % rpm -i readline-2.1-5.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /sbin/install-info is needed by readline-2.1-5 These are only the simplest problems, it seems, in installing gnucash. Can anyboby help with the first steps on this quest please? I hoped to jump over problems like this by installing the binary, but that doesn't seem to make thangs easier than installing from the sources... -- 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>>
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Wybo Dekker wrote:
Hi, I tried to install the gnucash binary gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm (there seems not to be a binary version for version 26) and I got:
% rpm -i gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libreadline.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libguile.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libXmHTML.so.1.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 even though I have libguile.so.3 and libXm.so.1 in /usr/local/lib. libreadline.so.3 lacks indeed, but I could not install it from its rpm:
% rpm -i readline-2.1-5.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /sbin/install-info is needed by readline-2.1-5
These are only the simplest problems, it seems, in installing gnucash. Can anyboby help with the first steps on this quest please?
I hoped to jump over problems like this by installing the binary, but that doesn't seem to make thangs easier than installing from the sources...
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I have had problems with GNUcash since I was running 5.3 when it came out. I have never been able to get this program to run right. If anyone has any ideas or tricks I would love to hear them as well. I have been using Moneydance for about six months and it preforms well, but I like the look of GNUcash and I would love to get it to work. Thanks, -- Ben Rosenberg ----------------||--------------------- "Whatever separates you from the truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow." ----------------||--------------------- <A HREF="mailto:sinthetk@inlink.com">mailto:sinthetk@inlink.com</A> -- 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>>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Wybo Dekker wrote:
Hi, I tried to install the gnucash binary gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm (there seems not to be a binary version for version 26) and I got:
% rpm -i gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libreadline.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libguile.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libXmHTML.so.1.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4 even though I have libguile.so.3 and libXm.so.1 in /usr/local/lib.
If you installed libguile from source instead of rpm, the rpm program knows nothing about it. Rpm does NOT look around for the files needed, it simply looks in its database of stuff installed with the rpm program. If you are absolutely certain that all the dependencies are satisfied through source packages, you can tell rpm to install anyway with the option --nodeps
libreadline.so.3 lacks indeed, but I could not install it from its rpm:
% rpm -i readline-2.1-5.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /sbin/install-info is needed by readline-2.1-5
These are only the simplest problems, it seems, in installing gnucash. Can anyboby help with the first steps on this quest please?
I hoped to jump over problems like this by installing the binary, but that doesn't seem to make thangs easier than installing from the sources...
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On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Wybo Dekker wrote:
% rpm -i gnucash-1.1.23-4.i386.rpm failed dependencies: <cut> even though I have libguile.so.3 and libXm.so.1 in /usr/local/lib. libreadline.so.3 lacks indeed, but I could not install it from its rpm:
% rpm -i readline-2.1-5.i386.rpm failed dependencies: /sbin/install-info is needed by readline-2.1-5
RPM uses a database to keep track of the files it installed. So if you have a program in /usr/local/ (installed by source I presume), RPM knows nothing about it. 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 Greetings, Cees. -- mataHmeH maSachnIS. To survive, we must expand. Mark Okrand, "Star Trek: The Klingon Way - A Warrier's Guide" -- 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>>
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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>>
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On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:37:03AM +0200, Wybo Dekker wrote: <cut>
checking for guile... checking for guile... configure: error: Cannot link with guile. Do you have guile 1.3 installed? <cut>
Do you have '/usr/local/lib/' in '/etc/ld.so.conf' and did you run '/sbin/ldconfig' as root? Cees. -- wej Heghchugh vay', SuvtaH SuvwI'. A warrior fights to the death. Mark Okrand, "Star Trek: The Klingon Way - A Warrier's Guide" -- 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>>
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I am having problems with gnucash as well. I have everything accept libreadline.so.3 and I download the rpm that is suppose to install it..and rpm does it's job or so it says, but when I updatedb and look for it. It's not there. If someone could just tar it up and send it to me..and let me know where gnucash looks for it..I guess it should work..or at least I will be over that hurdle. this is what I get when I run the gnucash executable... inthetk@dragula:~ > gnucash gnucash: error in loading shared libraries libreadline.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory sinthetk@dragula:~ > any help would be appreciated :) -- Ben Rosenberg ----------------||--------------------- "Whatever separates you from the truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow." ----------------||--------------------- <A HREF="mailto:sinthetk@inlink.com">mailto:sinthetk@inlink.com</A> -- 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>>
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Can anyone point me in the right direction to get a package that has libjpeg.so.62 specifically. GNUcash is erroring on this now...and I can't find a package with this specific version of the lib files in it. :/ I really wanna get this thing up and running. My wife is tired of Quicken 98 crashing her old Mac 5200, so she wants me to track our finances. <g> Any help would be wonderful, and I know someone has to know the who's and what's of this thing. laters, -- Ben Rosenberg ----------------||--------------------- "Whatever separates you from the truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow." ----------------||--------------------- <A HREF="mailto:sinthetk@inlink.com">mailto:sinthetk@inlink.com</A> -- 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>>
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Cees van de Griend wrote:
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checking for guile... checking for guile... configure: error: Cannot link with guile. Do you have guile 1.3 installed? <cut>
Do you have '/usr/local/lib/' in '/etc/ld.so.conf' and did you run '/sbin/ldconfig' as root?
Yes, /usr/local/lib/ was there and I don't know if /sbin/ldconfig had been run, but after I did it, just to be sure, the results were the same... -- 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>>
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