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.