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And there was much rejoicing!

Mate - that whole spiel was mildly entertaining the first
time around... it doesn't do anything for the posts you
apply it to, and as for your exuberant feelings; well,
I suppose they're yours.

It doesn't get better with age.


Cheers,
Tink

Okay, I've had a night's rest and a few coffees... and tried this out again on an installation that's not had any of this installed before.
Please, work now!

Xavier, if it doesn't strain your bandwidth, try the full package again. If it's still not working, I'll go hang around some other forum for a few days as punishment....

Cool, thanks Gnashley. When I get home (in about 6 hours), I'll start uninstalling and reinstalling.

Tink-

Thanks for letting me know it was getting thin.

success!!!

it's running here, but at first only as root.
as user i got :

ERROR: No such file or directory: "/usr/share/guile/1.6/slib/mklibcat"

so i did a " #chown -R root:users /usr/share/guile/1.6/slib/ "
and now it's running for users.
( maybe add that to the " doinstall.sh " or change the groups of those files ).

thanks

egag

gnashley,
I haven't tried the package yet, but I just wanted to thank you for doing this; GnuCash has been on my to-do list for a while. I'm hoping to get my wife used to using it (she's an accountant) so we can rid our house of the twin evils of Quickbooks and Windows.

I tried this and found that you absolutely have to run it as root first or the error won't go away. Than as user and all is fine.

It's working now, thanks for all of your work on this Gnashley.

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I tried this and found that you absolutely have to run it as root first or the error won't go away. Than as user and all is fine.
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you're right.
i didn't try that, but it works ok.

egag

I thought I had even fixed that. I tried it here after removing the files created in roots home directory and it ran alright first time as user.
Ah well, surely none will mind too much if everything else works alright.

BTW: this won't run on Slackware-10.0 or older. I had thought it might, but I'd have to go back and compile it on an older installation -if only I could remember which computer, which hard drive and which partition I have a Slack-10.0 installation on.... Oh yea, my very own Amigo-XP is Slack-10 compatible. I'llhave to recompile so my users can have that available to them.

Heheh - the problems of being a slack-packager.

Heh - well, I'd personally much prefer a set of build-scripts,
and maybe a little run-down of what you did, to a binary
package. The only binaries that hit my systems are Pats,
I'm paranoid by profession.



Cheers,
Tink

I'll supply the build scripts AND source code a little later. As you might imagine, this wasn't too easy to pull off.
I sttarted off with sources from Slackware-8.1 Most of the sources for Gnome-1.4 won't compile straight off with modern GCC and autoconf. I actually had better luck using sources which had been split up and configured for HPUX. Some sources had to be edited. For example, many old header files used to have no ending new line, which is no longer allowed. Edit by hand, ad nauseum.
Also, I had to include some later versions, like gal, so that more features of gnucash would be available.

Thanks, gnashley - well done.
Being on dialup, I downloaded this last night after midnight. This morning, I installed the package, then tried to run as root. It complained about /usr/share/guile/1.6/slib/mklibcat - no such file or directory.

It exists as mklibcat.scm - so I just renamed it to mklibcat and reran. Popped right up! I canceled out and closed after the first screen, then ran as a normal user. No problem yet.

The problem will be in learning how to use gnucash.

Man, that's some major chore. Maybe you should feed the
diffs back to the maintainers? I would assume that people
with other distros (or using LFS) might run into similar problems...

As for the new-lines in the headers :) ... I'm sure sed could have
helped? ;}


Cheers,
Tink