I have just checked out gnucash from cvs, and compiled and installed it. A number of interesting things happened. My ./configure was "./configure --prefix=/home/rob/compiled" so that the whole mess could go under my home directory. Some of the problems I have had are as follows: /home/rob/compiled/bin/gnc-prices had to be edited so that the first code line read "use lib '/home/rob/compiled/lib/gnucash/';" I had to create a number of symlinks so that gnucash could even run. /usr/share/guile/slibcat is a link to /usr/lib/scm/slibcat, which is provided by package scm. I created the directory /usr/share/guile, and put in it mklibcat -> /usr/share/slib/mklibcat, provided by slib; mklibcat.scm -> /usr/share/slib/mklibcat.scm, provided by slib; and require.scm -> /usr/share/slib/require.scm, also provided by slib. Some of these might have been because of some scheme files not looking in my home directory for stuff, I forget. Try installing with ./configure and a --prefix option as a non-root user and see how it goes. I still get errors upon startup of gnucash: " bash-2.02$ /home/rob/compiled/bin/gnucash.gnome gnucash: bootstrap file is /home/rob/compiled/share/gnucash/scm/bootstrap.scm gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/home/rob/compiled/share/gnucash/scm/text-export.scm" This is a development version. It may or may not work. Report bugs and other problems to http://www.gnucash.org/ The last stable version was gnucash-1.2.0 The next stable version will be gnucash-1.4.x /dev/dsp: No such device " an strace of it shows the following interesting points: access("/home/rob/.gnucash/scm/text-export.scm", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/rob/compiled/share/gnucash/scm/text-export.scm", F_OK) = 0 open("/home/rob/compiled/share/gnucash/scm/text-export.scm", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4268, ...}) = 0 select(1024, [3], [], [], {0, 0}) = 1 (in [3], left {0, 0}) read(3, ";;; $Id: text-export.scm,v 1.3 1"..., 4096) = 4096 access("/usr/share/guile/slibcat", F_OK) = 0 open("/usr/share/guile/slibcat", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4811, ...}) = 0 select(1024, [4], [], [], {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0}) read(4, ";\"slibcat\" SLIB catalog for scm5"..., 4096) = 4096 select(1024, [4], [], [], {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0}) read(4, "ib-version* . \"2c6\")\n)\n\n; \"/home"..., 4096) = 715 write(1, "gnucash: [W] \"failure loading \"\""..., 86gnucash: [W] "failure loadi ng ""/home/rob/compiled/share/gnucash/scm/text-export.scm" ) = 86 I have some more usage questions about gnucash, but will ask them in another email. rob -- "Three comes next, after two." -- me -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
