If anyone has Gnucash-2.0.4 or -2.0.5 running on Slackware-11.0, please
share with me how you did this.

I've spent the past week or so trying to get it running, and cannot do so
even with the help of Derek Atkins and Josh Sled from the gnucash mail list.

Freerock Gnome was updated to -current, individual frg packges installed,
guile, g-wrap, and slib built and rebuilt and specific versions installed in
a particular sequence, but every time, gnucash fails to configure, make, or
load properly. There's always something missing, of the wrong version, or
the configure process cannot find what it needs and there's no option that
allows me to point it to the proper directory.

In the decade I've run linux I have not encountered such a useful
application that has been a consistent PITA to upgrade when the distribution
is upgraded. Gnucash-2.0.1 ran for me under Slackware-10.2 and the 2.4.32
kernel, but I'm totally frustrated and SOL with Slackware-11.0, the 2.6.19.2
kernel and gnucash-2.0.4 or .5. The latter, by the way, is supposed to be
less sensitive to guile/gnome versions.

Any and all help appreciated,

Rich

rshepard@nospam.appl-ecosys.com <rshepard@nospam.appl-ecosys.com>
skrev 2007-02-22:
> If anyone has Gnucash-2.0.4 or -2.0.5 running on Slackware-11.0,
> please share with me how you did this.
>
> [Cut]....
>
> Any and all help appreciated,
>
> Rich

see this link:

http://www.tux.org/~milgram/slack11Gnucash.html


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Morten L

On 2007-02-22, Morten L <ml47sp11am@gspmailam.com> wrote:

> see this link:
>
> http://www.tux.org/~milgram/slack11Gnucash.html

Thank you very much Morten. Other than not re-installing Slackware, I'll
give it a try.

Rich

rshepard@nospam.appl-ecosys.com wrote:
> On 2007-02-22, Morten L <ml47sp11am@gspmailam.com> wrote:
>
> > see this link:
> >
> > http://www.tux.org/~milgram/slack11Gnucash.html
>
> Thank you very much Morten. Other than not re-installing Slackware, I'll
> give it a try.
>
> Rich

I placed FreeRock Gnome as a source in the slapt-get rc file, with a
line like this
SOURCE=http://linuxpackages.inode.at/FreeRock-Gnome/frg-current/
(besides a regular Slackware 11 source from Linuxpackages) then

slapt-get --update
slapt-get --install gnucash-2.0.1-i486-1frg (I haven't (yet) managed
to get 2.0.4 to install)

gtkhtml has to be installed separately with: slapt-get --install
gtkhtml
then: slapt-get --install goffice
and: slapt-get --install --reinstall libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1frg
if you have a newer version of dbus, you can link libdbus: ln -s /usr/
lib/libdbus-1.so.3 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2
you will also need guile 1.6.7 from Slackware 10.2 (get it from
packages.slackware.it)

I tried dropline gnome once and I DO NOT recommend it. It messed up a
lot of those things for which I love my Slackware (eg. adding a bunch
of system V style configuration files) and when I tried to remove it,
it took many hours to get things back to a useable state (ever since,
I can't use firefox because it doesn't find the dns server (konqueror,
opera, dillo, lynx and links all work fine!). gftp doesn't work either
(really weird, any ideas what the problem is??))

jim

On Feb 22, 4:43 pm, "jdoepp" <jdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't use firefox because it doesn't find the dns server
>

What's your /etc/resolv.conf say?

Firefox typically uses the nameserver entry in that file...

On Feb 23, 1:24 am, "Chris Sorenson" <cso...@isd.net> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 4:43 pm, "jdoepp" <jdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I can't use firefox because it doesn't find the dns server
>
> What's your /etc/resolv.conf say?
>
> Firefox typically uses the nameserver entry in that file...

My resolv.conf info is received from the dhcp server (and this hasn't
changed):
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

# Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0
search <mydomain>
nameserver 212.93.140.1
nameserver 193.231.236.17

As I say, this file has not changed (firefox worked before with the
same settings), and all the other browsers (+ ping) look in the
resolv.conf file for the dns server information, and work fine.

jim

On 2007-02-22, jdoepp <jdoepp@gmail.com> wrote:

> I placed FreeRock Gnome as a source in the slapt-get rc file, with a
> line like this
> SOURCE=http://linuxpackages.inode.at/FreeRock-Gnome/frg-current/
> (besides a regular Slackware 11 source from Linuxpackages) then
>
> slapt-get --update
> slapt-get --install gnucash-2.0.1-i486-1frg (I haven't (yet) managed
> to get 2.0.4 to install)
>
> gtkhtml has to be installed separately with: slapt-get --install
> gtkhtml
> then: slapt-get --install goffice
> and: slapt-get --install --reinstall libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1frg
> if you have a newer version of dbus, you can link libdbus: ln -s /usr/
> lib/libdbus-1.so.3 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2
> you will also need guile 1.6.7 from Slackware 10.2 (get it from
> packages.slackware.it)

Thanks, Jim. I've progressed much beyond the time I posted that article.
Very briefly, I discovered the README.dependencies in gnucash-2.0.5 source
tarball and have installed every one; some are my packages, a few from DL, a
few from FRG. Guile-1.6.7, slib3a1 (slib-3.1.1), and g-wrap-1.9.6 are also
installed. However, the latter is missing a file and the g-wrap.SlackBuild
script is crashing. When I fix the latter I'll build a complete g-wrap.

When I get done, I'll add to the gnucash-on-slackware page on the gnucash
wiki, submit all the details to slackbuild.org for inclusion on their web
site, and pass them to Judah Milgram (who's helping me work out the
installation sequence of guile, g-wrap, and slib) for inclusion on his site.

Rich