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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