I'm having difficulties that I've not had before with Slackware. Two
applications I've built (and re-built today) using SlackBuild scripts or
checkinstall either will not run or run incorrectly.

The two apps are Gnucash-2.0.4 (which finds an undefined symbol in a
library when I try to invoke it) and LyX-1.4.4 which will not display a
document in dvips.

Gnucash has been a consistent hassle, even with the Freerock Gnome. It
broke when I upgraded from -10.2 to -11.0, and I traced that to gnucash's
requirement for guile-1.6.7 rather than the -1.8.0 version. Now both are
installed on my machine and 'ldd /usr/bin/gnucash-bin' reports no missing
libraries. But, when I try to invoke it the error is:

gnucash-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/./libgnome-2.so.0: undefined
symbol: bonobo_activation_get_goption_group

libgnome-2.so.0 is present in /usr/lib. I've yet to see a response to my
post on the gnucash-users mail list. Perhaps someone here has a suggestion.

With LyX I'm at a complete loss. I've used that since version 1.0.0 and
I've built and installed each new version flawlessly. Until today. With the
new -1.4.4 version I can open a document created in an earlier release and,
when I press ctrl-d, see the formatted results in dvips. But, I cannot do
the same with any document -- even of a dozen words -- created in the new
version.

When I uninstall that and re-install -1.4.3 from the package on
linuxpackages.net, it just won't load. Here, too, I'm waiting for one of the
developers or other wise person to respond to my message on the mail list.

I don't understand why I'm having all these problems (see my separate
thread on a CUPS issue) with -11.0.

Suggestions and thoughts encouraged.

Rich

rshepard@nospam.appl-ecosys.com wrote:
> I'm having difficulties that I've not had before with Slackware. Two
> applications I've built (and re-built today) using SlackBuild scripts or
> checkinstall either will not run or run incorrectly.
>
> The two apps are Gnucash-2.0.4 (which finds an undefined symbol in a
> library when I try to invoke it) and LyX-1.4.4 which will not display a
> document in dvips.
>
> Gnucash has been a consistent hassle, even with the Freerock Gnome. It
> broke when I upgraded from -10.2 to -11.0, and I traced that to gnucash's
> requirement for guile-1.6.7 rather than the -1.8.0 version. Now both are
> installed on my machine and 'ldd /usr/bin/gnucash-bin' reports no missing
> libraries. But, when I try to invoke it the error is:
>
> gnucash-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/./libgnome-2.so.0: undefined
> symbol: bonobo_activation_get_goption_group
>
> libgnome-2.so.0 is present in /usr/lib. I've yet to see a response to my
> post on the gnucash-users mail list. Perhaps someone here has a suggestion.

I have no solution but I know that one of the reason Gnome applications
are not included in Slackware is precisely these kind of dependencies
problems. Maybe you can look at other distros, for example archlinux
clearly mention the dependencies of their software, I have used this
trick to succefully build abiword.

>
> With LyX I'm at a complete loss. I've used that since version 1.0.0 and
> I've built and installed each new version flawlessly. Until today. With the
> new -1.4.4 version I can open a document created in an earlier release and,
> when I press ctrl-d, see the formatted results in dvips. But, I cannot do
> the same with any document -- even of a dozen words -- created in the new
> version.
>

I have successfully built LyX 1.4.3. and Ctrl-D work. Seems a LyX bug,
not a build problem. May try to reconfigure the program to launch on
Ctrl-D (Tool -> preference) and/or to erase the configuration (~/.lyx)
in case it have become corrupt; the default viewer is xdvi (not dvips as
you mention).

Olive

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:23:13 +0100, Olive wrote:

> rshepard@nospam.appl-ecosys.com wrote:
>> I'm having difficulties that I've not had before with Slackware. Two
>> applications I've built (and re-built today) using SlackBuild scripts or
>> checkinstall either will not run or run incorrectly.
>>
>> The two apps are Gnucash-2.0.4 (which finds an undefined symbol in a
>> library when I try to invoke it) and LyX-1.4.4 which will not display a
>> document in dvips.
>>
>> Gnucash has been a consistent hassle, even with the Freerock Gnome. It
>> broke when I upgraded from -10.2 to -11.0, and I traced that to gnucash's
>> requirement for guile-1.6.7 rather than the -1.8.0 version. Now both are
>> installed on my machine and 'ldd /usr/bin/gnucash-bin' reports no missing
>> libraries. But, when I try to invoke it the error is:
>>
>> gnucash-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/./libgnome-2.so.0: undefined
>> symbol: bonobo_activation_get_goption_group

You need to install the bonobo libraries: libbonobo-activation.so.4.0.0
(or whatever version you had) has that symbol you need.

There is no reliable gnome for Slackware 11 that's current. I suggest
trying garnome.
--
Peter