gnucash

[Edward Norton]

On 2/26/06, Mike <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> what about all of the dependencies? I ran dpkg and got all sorts of
> dependency
> problems
>
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 18:57, Edward Norton wrote:
> > Personally, I would suggest you just get the source tarball and read the
> > INSTALL/README file inside. Would probably be easier than trying to fix
> > apt-get.
> >
> > (generally all that's necessary to compile the source is a `./configure
> &&
> > make && make install` (as root mind you))
>
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>From the README file:

> The following packages are required to be installed to run GnuCash:
>
>   Gnome 1.4: see www.gnome.org for more information.
>
>   guile: provides main extension language infrastructure, used
>     extensively in GnuCash for initialization & startup. Requires
>     version 1.3.4 or later.  Version 1.4 is noticeably speedier and is
>     recommended if possible.  You can obtain source from
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.4.tar.gz
>
>   slib: scheme libraries for guile. Need version slib2c4 or later.
>     You can find source at
>     http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/slib2d1.zip
>
>   libpng: portable network graphics library. Any version.  You can
>     find the source at
>     ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src/libpng-1.0.9.tar.gz.
>
>   libjpeg: JPEG image handling library. Any version.  Sources can be
>     found at ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz.
>
>   libz: compression library. Any version.  You can find source at
>     http://www.gzip.org/zlib.tar.gz.
>
>   xpm: X Pixmap extension. Any version.  Normally distributed with an
>    X installation.  By default this is part of XFree86 4.0 or better.
>    You can also find this at
>    ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz.
>
>   gnome-libs: version 1.2.0 or higher should work.  The latest
>     version, 1.2.13, is of course recommended. These libraries
>     require numerous other supporting libraries, such as gtk and glib.
>     All of these can be found at ftp.gnome.org.
>
>   gnome-print: any recent version should work, however problems have
>     been reported with 0.28.  This is a part of GNOME as well. Sources
>     at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-print
>
>   gdk-pixbuf: any recent version should work.  This is typically
>    distributed with GNOME.  Sources at
>    ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gdk-pixbuf.
>
>   gtkhtml: version 0.8 and later should work. You can obtain the latest
>     version of gtkhtml from Helix Code.  Note that this has changed
>     since 1.4, which used the older gtkxmhtml library.  Sources can be
>     found at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gtkhtml/.
>
>   guppi: version 0.35.3 should work.  Version 0.35.5 is required for
>    some advanced functionality.  This can be found at
>    ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/Guppi.  You may need
>    to configure it with `--prefix=/usr' in order for gnucash's
>    `configure' to find the guppi library. Note: Version 0.40.3
>    (released January 2002) has a problem with reversed legends in
>    stacked barcharts. Since Guppi development has halted since that
>    version, we can only provide a source code patch for Guppi 0.40.3
>    that fixes this problem. You find that patch in
>    lib/guppi-legend.patch.
>
>   libgal: any recent version should work.  This is a GNOME related
>    library used by several different programs.  You can find it at
>    ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gal/.
>
>   libdb: Version 1.85 or a compatible version.


Presumably, all you need to do is something along the lines of `apt-get
install pkg` for all the packages listed that you don't already have.  Then
you can try and apt-get GnuCash.
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