On 2/26/06, Mike <
bmike101@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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