Hello friends,

I've been using Slack for around 6 months now and it has been excellent, pretty much all of what I need is already installed. So I decided to get a bit more adventurous and learn how to use SlackBuilds to install gnucash.
The first three requirements went fine but the installation of webgitgtk dumped out on this:

configure: error: WebP library (libwebp) not found

But I have installed the SlackBuild, so it just can't find it I assume.

After having a look around, it looked like webkitgtk was only required for geo-location stuff so I just thought I'd give ./gnucash.SlackBuild a quick go anyway.

That just dumped me out at:

configure: error: Cannot find libgoffice.>= 0.7.0

I'm assuming this should be included in goffice0.8, which installed without error.

My guess is that it has something to do with paths but I don't really know what I should be editing to get this to find each other. I also don't want to just go in and start playing around, and make important paths disappear!

So if anyone could give me a hand here, I would be very greatful!

P.S. Through out the whole process, I've been logged in as root.

Did you install http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...aries/libwebp/ previously?

Hi lambo69,

Yes I did, it's listed as one of the requirements on the webkitgtk slackbuild page.
However, I did not install gstreamer1 because the slackbuild page said:

"DO NOT replace the Slackware-provide gstreamer package with this gstreamer1 package from here!"

So I didn't touch that one. But weblibp installed with no problem.

Try to locate libwebp
If it's there, have a look if it's in $PATH. If it's available but not in your path, create a soft link to make it available.

What sometimes helps is running "ldconfig".

Wait a second! I think I've just been making packages.

Is this right? for example

./libwebp.SlackBuild

I thought that installed the SlackBuild. If I've been doing this wrong, I am sorry!

But in that case, whats next?

What have I made and what do I do with it?

Have a look at /tmp, usually slackbuilds drop packages there and they have to be installed manually...
cd to /tmp and then

Maybe you should have a look at https://www.sbopkg.org/

Oh my god, yeah they're all in /tmp

I was using the "how to" on the SlackBuilds website and I think that I was so excited by the fact that stuff was happening, I didn't go to step 4!

Just two quick questions (hopefully) then. I'm using installpkg as root, will this make the programs available to all users?
And is https://www.sbopkg.org/ like the slackpkg tool?

Thanks lambo69, sorry for the trouble!

Yes
No. slackpkg handles packages from mirrors of the slackware-project, sbopkg handles slackbuilds (download sources, verifying them, running slackbuild, installing the package, and so on).

Excellent, thanks for all your help lambo69!

Be sure to mark the thread as SOLVED in case others have the same problem :-p