RPM help please

[Derek Neighbors]

Carl,

Use apt-get.  Seriously, installing gnucash on redhat w/ RPMs or even on 
Mandrake seems to be an utter bitch.  It even states it on its website.  
You are best off running an older version or compiling from source.

I spent better part of day getting dependencies over 60, to get gnucash to 
work on red hat 6.2 boxen.  In the end it still wanted me to update glib 
(yeah right) So I went with source.  Then I just decided to use apt-get 
instead on my debian box.

GNUCash has started to rely on highly expiremental and unstable packages 
which are painful wrt dependencies.

-Derek
 On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Okay without saying "carl you should use apt-get" can someone help me 
> with rpm? I'm trying to get gnucash installed its saying I need 
> libguile.so.9 so I went to rpmfind and see that that's part of the 
> guile-1.4 rpm. I did a rpm -q on guile and see that I have 
> guile-1.3.4-16 installed so I do rpm -U guile-1.4<blahblahblah> and it 
> comes back with a list of dependences that need guile-1.3 to run. It was 
> my understanding that the -U switch was to Upgrade the package so that 
> all the programs depending on the old packetage could still run. Up 
> until this point the steps I've taken so far either worked or I just 
> gave up and installed from source but I've decided now to really 
> understand RPM any tricks I should try that I haven't? Any good 
> "detailed" info on RPM? I'm looking for something with a bit more 
> explanation than the man page.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carl P.
> 
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