True, the version in EPEL7 is 2.6.18, one version back, soon to be two versions back.
I too was wondering the issue, now I see that essentially, nothing ever gets back-ported for RHEL, so newer RPMs can’t pull in dependencies because they don’t exist in the older repositories. They can provide 10 years of support, because it’s essentially frozen. Your experience and explanation makes me glad I never tried RHEL. Regards, Adrien > On Feb 24, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...@verizon.net> wrote: > > On 02/23/2018 06:40 PM, David Carlson wrote: >> I am lost in this thread. I thought that the point of Linux was to use >> RPMs to do the dirty work of installing the software. In fedora that would >> be "yum install gnucash". Are you saying that does not work? >> >> David C >> > > Yes, it would not work because the server that would respond to yum is > the one Red Hat maintains to support (in my case) RHEL6. Were I running > RHEL7, it would get things from that. But in either case, Red Hat do not > support Gnucash (and do not support VLC), so I would need to download > the rpms from elsewhere. And it is not that easy because the rpm's will > not install unless all the dependencies are already there. And to get > them is almost impossible for most things. > > When I downloaded VLC, for example, I needed a few libraries. I found > and downloaded some of those. They wanted more. Some of them needed > other libraries and they did not exist. So I had to get rid of some and > get other versions of those, and so on. It took over a week to get VLC > to work. And I was trying to install VLC because some other video player > (and mp3 player) stopped working. > > The only way I got GnuCash to work is that it is not quite as > complicated as VLC, and the EPEL project has Gnucash in it. They do not > upgrade it though. They have a version that works, and that is that. The > EPEL for Gnucash in RHEL7 will not install in RHEL6, and I am not > prepared to upgrade my RHEL6 system just to get the latest Gnucash. > (Even were I to do that, there is no reason to believe that that version > of Gnucash would be the latest, though I suspect it would be more up to > date than what I now have.) > > > > -- > .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. > /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. > /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net > ^^-^^ 08:35:01 up 29 days, 21:32, 2 users, load average: 4.64, 4.60, 4.37 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
