Re: No GnuCash in woody?

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com> writes:

> Brian Nelson wrote:
> 
> > The gnucash package is a mess due to the rapidly changing libs in its
> > dependencies.  ATM, you'd need to pull down the source from unstable
> > and build it against the libraries on your system (the deb in unstable
> > is uninstallable because libguppi13 is no longer in the archives).
> 
> libguppi13 is in my package archive.
> 
>    http://crdic.ath.cx/debian/
> 
> DON'T put this in sources.list -- it's not a package repository, just a
> directory containing packages. Look at it with your web browser if you're
> having trouble finding some recent (but not current) Sid package.

There's no need to install libguppi13 unless you really want to use
the gnucash deb in unstable.  It's just as easy to built your own deb,
which will link gnucash against whatever libguppi/libgal/etc you have
on your system.  That way you don't have old those libs build up on
your system.  Or, if you're installing it for the first time, you
don't need to track down old libs when the deb is out of date.

Here's mine (notice it picked up the dependency on libguppi15):

$ apt-cache show gnucash
Package: gnucash
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 14564
Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Version: 1.6.4-3
Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.14), gdk-imlib1, libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5), libaudiofile0, libbonobo2 (>= 1.0.14), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-1), libesd0 (>= 0.2.23-1) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.23-1), libfreetype6, libgal18 (>= 0.18.1), libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.13.0-1), libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.13.0-1), libghttp1 (>= 1.0.9-7), libglade-gnome0, libglade0, libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgnomeprint15 (>= 0.29-1), libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgnomeui32 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libgtkhtml20 (>= 1.0.0), libguile9 (>= 1:1.4-20), libguppi15, libgwrapguile1, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), liboaf0 (>= 0.6.7), liborbit0 (>= 0.5.12), libpopt0 (>= 1.6.2-1), libreadline4 (>= 4.2), libxml1 (>= 1:1.8.14-3), libzvt2 (>= 1.2.13-5), oaf (>= 0.6.7), python2.1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), libwww-perl, slib, guile1.4, guile1.4-slib, perl, libfinance-quote-perl, libdate-manip-perl

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