Hi!
Sorry to have to use this venue for this, but I didn't see a "report bugs"
on the gnucash.org web page.
First a brief word of background: I have been developing system-level
software professionally for over 20 years, mostly highly specialized
compilers. I've dealt with a lot of software over the years, and go back
to the days when "editing" meant sitting at a card-punch (keypunch) machine.
I've just tried to install gnucash 1.4.0-1 under Mandrake 7.0 from the
RPM that I downloaded from the "mirror" site. Unfortunately the package
is wanting libguile.so.4 and libreadline.so.3. However, the currently
available RPMs for guile contain /usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0 with softlinks
from libguile.so.1, libguile.so.5, and libguile.so.6 to it, and the currently
available RPM for readline (readline-4.1) contains /usr/lib/readline.so.4.1
with a softlink from libreadline.so.4 to it.
I also tried planting additional softlinks for libguile.so.4 and
libreadline.so.3 in /usr/lib, but this still didn't make kpackage any happier.
The point is that it seems to me (having spent 20 years trying to make _my_
customers happy) that you either need to upgrade to building with the current
versions of these libraries, or alternatively make the older versions available
on your download site.
By the way, I've been having this problem since I first tried to install gnucash
1.3.1, right after installing Mandrake 7.0.
I would really like to see GnuCash succeed. It sounds like it would be
a good replacement for Quicken, at least for what I need. Quicken is the
one practical application that I still regularly use Windows 98. If GnuCash
lives up to its promise, I can probably blow Windows off my machines. Due
to the problems I've had installing GnuCash, though, I can't just advise people
to switch to Linux -- the replacement for Quicken is a critical piece of the
puzzle at this point.
Unfortunately, I can't justify a bunch of time trying to download sources and
recompiling -- the time I've already spent trying to get GnuCash to work would
have just about paid for a copy of W2K and Quicken 2000...
Clark
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