The mailing lists seem to have a lot of messages from people who are having trouble getting GnuCash to run on SuSE distributions. Not surprising...I had my share of misery getting it installed. I originally tried the motif sources on SuSE 6.1 - I don't want to admit how many hours I spent on failure. But the gtk version works now on SuSE 6.3; and the result was worth the effort since I can convert a vfat partition to ext2. So maybe the observations below will help someone. SuSE includes a ton of stuff but the GNOME environment is not quite as complete as it is on other distros - KDE is the default. And GnuCash has a bunch of dependencies to satisfy. In many cases you will find the dependencies somewhere on the SuSE CD's but sometimes you have to hunt for them. If you use YAST you can check file lists on the various packages. When you find the file you need just use YAST to install the package. For example, I found libreadline.so.3 in a package called virtuoso-1.0-15. If you are not using YAST you can find files using RPM. Mount a CD and locate a candidate package. The command `rpm -qpl <filename.rpm>' will list all the files in the package. When you find what you need use the `rpm -i <filename>' command to install the package and the missing file. There were also other dependencies to track down that are not included with SuSE packages or had version problems. libxml, g-wrap, libguile.so.4, gnlibs-1.0.53 to name a few. If they are not included in your distribution just download using RPM find. Google will get you there fast. If you are using RPM's to install GnuCash you should make sure you have no unsatified dependencies first. The easy way is to examine the package with KPackage which will show them. Track down the missing files and install them (or the packages that contain them). Once this is done the GnuCash RPM should install. I was also able to install from source code but it took hours. First you have to satisfy all the dependencies for ./configure. The error messages will show you what they are. For example, I had to get g-wrap from the GnuCash ftp site and install. The make command will also fail, repeatedly, until all the dependencies are satisfied. Look for the missing files on the SuSE CD's. If they are not there try a Google search. I was able to find libjpeg.so.62 in the libjpeg-6b-9 package. I understand there is also a new RPM for SuSE thanks to Stephan Kahnt. Good. -- Paul Tatham [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
