On 2/26/06, Mike 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)) > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >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.