[NTLUG:Discuss] GNOME and GNUCash install difficulties

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 21:20:29 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Dan Griswold <dgriswol at post.cis.smu.edu>  said:
> 
> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Brannen <kbrannen at gte.net> writes:
> 
>     Kevin> Christopher Browne wrote:
>     >>
>     Kevin> ...
>     >> That still may leave some inconvenience in trying to retrofit
>     >> to SuSE 6.1.  This maybe SuSE's sign that you need to upgrade
>     >> to "6.newer."
>     >>
>     >> [Does it irritate anyone else that so many Linux systems are
>     >> nearly as slavishly dependent on regular version upgrades as is
>     >> true for the moves between non-interoperable versions of MS
>     >> Office?  Off the soapbox...]  --
> 
>     Kevin> <soapbox>
> 
>     Kevin> Yes!  Loading from a CD distro and getting it customized &
>     Kevin> stable is pretty easy now-a-days, IMHO.  But trying to
>     Kevin> upgrade (or sometimes add) 1 package that has lots of lib
>     Kevin> dependencies can be a real killer.
> 
> With Chris's and Kevin's comments, I certainly and heartily agree. In
> fact, this issue I find quite irritating. After all, isn't one of the
> points about Open Source/Free Software to allow one to be _less_
> dependent on a commercial software distributor?
> 
> Chris, I don't have the file you mention ("doc/SuSE-6.3"). But maybe
> that's because I didn't download the users-guide. Which I'm doing
> right now. :%

Ask me and I can send it to you under separate cover...

> >> That certainly could be. But I didn't use any extra compile
> >> options. BTW, what is libpixbufloader?
> 
> >I'm running GnuCash atop Debian, and see no such library there.
> 
> Just to recall for the sake of clarity, I brought up "libpixbufloader"
> because that's what an error message reported. It's quite possible,
> given my lack of Linux-godhood, that I am completely wrong in my
> assumption that the message means that I need a library so
> entitled. Am I?

I'm not trying to imply that you're wrong about its complaint; what I
_can_ verify is that I am running GnuCash without that library, whatever
it might be.

I'd really suggest that you bounce questions over to
<gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>, as that mailing list will get you at some
people that have used GnuCash with SuSE, various versions, and that
thus may have encountered similar issues.
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