Thank you very much! Finally I was able to install and start gnucash after I
download slib2c5.tar.gz
Now my first difficulty: Importing QIF files. As soon as I select one to import
gnucash crash and disappearing.:((
I'll look in the Archive, but if you know the solution plese let me know also.
CC. in my mailbox please.
Thanks a lot:
Steve
On 16-Apr-99 Michael Wood-Vasey wrote:
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> Dakshi Agrawal writes:
> >
> > I have the same problem. There is a rpm package slib-???-rpm at gnucash
> > site, but loading it did not help. Help please any one ??
> >
> > [ . . . ]
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Steve Varadi wrote:
> >
> > > Please help me to start gnucash. I read everything regarding
> installation. It
> > > seems to be OK, but not start. :((
> > > bash-2.02# ./gnucash.motif
> > > gnucash: startup-dir is /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup
> > > gnucash: startup-file is /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup/init.scm
> > > loading startup file /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup/utilities.scm
> > > loading startup file /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup/config-var.scm
> > > loading startup file /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup/path.scm
> > > loading startup file /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup/prefs.scm
> > > guile: Could not find slib/require.scm in
> ("/usr/local/share/guile/site"
> > > "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a" "/usr/local/share/guile" ".")
> > > bash-2.02#
> > >
> > > I check /usr/local/share/guile/1.3a but I did not find any but I did
> not
> > > find any slib/require.scm in :((
> > > [ . . . ]
>
> I experienced the same problem when installing GnuCash just last week.
> It took me a while to figure out what was needed. What worked for me,
> using "slib2c5.tar.gz" from
> <http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html>, was to
>
> 1) untar the 'slib' package under "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a/"
>
> By default when 'guile' is installed there should be
> an "ice-9" subdirectory under "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a/".
> Installing 'slib' as listed above should create a directory
> "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a/slib/" with the requested file,
> "require.scm" contained herein. "require.scm" is run and
> describes what's required to use functions in the 'slib' package.
>
> 2) initialize the 'slib' library
>
> The final step required to get everything to work was not obvious
> to me and I couldn't find it listed in the "REAMDE" file in the
> 'slib' package. The first time the 'slib' library is loaded
> (i.e. the file "slib/require.scm" is run under 'guile'), a file
> 'slibcat' is created in "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a". However,
> hopefully that directory is writable only by root, so if you try
> to run 'gnucash' for the first time as anyone other than root,
> this file will not be written so it will 'gnucash' will not
> load. I solved this by doing the following as root:
>
> # guile
> guile> (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
> guile> (require 'new-catalog)
>
> This created the catalog file,
> "/usr/local/share/guile/1.3a/slibcat", which is required to use the
> slib libraries. Since the guile and slib files are in a root owned
> and protected directory, I had to be root to create the "slibcat"
> file.
>
> Alternatively, one could just run 'gnucash' once as 'root', and it
> should set things up properly. I did the other way because I try
> to do as little as necessary as root.
>
> Please let me know if you have further difficulties installing
> GnuCash. I must agree with the recent comments that GnuCash is
> difficult to install. I have not come up with any concrete
> suggestions yet.
>
> In general, these were changes I had to make to install GnuCash
> (version 1.1.26):
>
> - --- Begin changes list ---
> Trying to install using the given
> ./configure ; make motif ; make install
>
> I had to do the following to get gnucash to compile:
> - ------------------------------------------------------
> In gnucash-1.2.26/src/engine/Query.c
> - Had to put "#ifndef"s and "#endif"s around LONG_LONG_MAX[MIN]
> because they were already defined in /usr/local/
> In gnucash-1.2.26/src/engine/Transaction.c
> - Had to compile "Transaction.c" separately without -Werror option
> to 'gcc', as it complained of an invalid pointer type
> (long int) instead of the desired (usigned int)
> In gnucash-1.2.26/src/motif/Makefile
> - Added "-I/usr/X11R6/include" to the "INCLPATH" to get HelpWindow.c
> to compile
>
> To install XmHTML
> - The README file is unclear on this, but the following series of commands
> worked for me
>
># xmkmf -a
># make
># make install
>
> [ + installing 'slib' and initializing it as described above ]
>
> - --- End Changes List ---
>
>
> Michael
>
> - --
> Michael Wood-Vasey
> Department of Physics
> University of California at Berkeley
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> University of California at Berkeley or the Department of Physics.
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