Installing Gnucash 2.0.3 on Slackware 11.0

(For Gnucash 1.8 and/or Slack 10, look here)

Last updated 25 Feb 2007

Judah Milgram
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Background

I recently installed Gnucash 2.0.3 on a Slackware 11.0 system. Unfortunately, I didn't take careful notes but here's a rough outline. The good news is that all the Gnome dependencies are taken care of by Dropline Gnome.

fresh Slackware 11.0 installation
full Dropline install (v. 2.16)
removepkg guile-1.8.0-i486-1
install guile 1.6.8 from sources.
install g-wrap 1.3.4 from sources. This has to be done after re-installing guile.
install slib 2d6. See below for details. I don't know where an "official" release is but here's the file I installed it from: slib2d6.zip. I had it lying around from an earlier Gnucash install.
./configure && make && make install.
It used to be that you had to start up Gnucash once as root. I don't know if it's still necessary (I did it anyway).
Install the gnucash-docs package. I used v. 2.0.1 and it was a straight configure/make/make install.

I found that the guile 1.8.0 that Slackware 11 ships with created problems. Problems too with g-wrap 1.9.x and slib 3a4. Maybe I wasn't doing something right with them but at this point I'm happy to declare victory. This two-line script was useful for checking out the guile/g-wrap/slib installation:

guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)"
guile -c "(use-modules (g-wrap))"

... without having to re-run gnucash's configure script over and over.

Installing slib

I am grateful to R.J. Marquette for these instructions, which (once again) are ripped off verbatim from his Gnucash on Slackware page.

Get version 2d6; 3a1 is missing a file that gnucash requires.
Unpack slib2d6.tar.gz into /usr/share/guile/1.6/ (creates slib dir)
Just to be on the safe side, chown -R root:root slib
As root, enter the command: guile -l /usr/share/guile/1.6/slib/guile.init
At the guile prompt, type: (require 'new-catalog).
Then, exit guile by typing: (exit).