Slackware

Gnucash on Slackware

With Gnucash having evolved into a Gnome 2 application, and Slackware Gnome support being picked up by Dropline Gnome, it has become much easier to install Gnucash on a Slackware system. In fact, we may even hope for the day when Gnucash itself is distributed with Dropline Gnome. In the meantime, here are some success stories.

Slack 11 + GnuCash 2

Outline follows. See this page with more details.

1. Start with a fresh Slack 11 installation
2. Do a full dropline install. Probably only a few Dropline packages are required - if someone has time it would be a great contribution to figure out what the minimum set of packages is.
3. removepkg guile-1.8.0-i486-1
4. Install guile 1.6.8 from sources
5. Install g-wrap 1.3.4 from sources
6. Install slib 2d6
7. ./configure && make && make install.

Alternate Method: GWARE Rev. H works just as well (more testing needed) as dropline

1. Start with a fresh Slack 11.0 installation
2. Complete a full GWARE Rev. H install
3. removepkg guile-1.8.0-i486-1 (unnecessary?)
4. Install guile 1.6.8 from source (unnecessary? - g-wrap 1.3.4 will not compile without this version)
5. Install slib2d6 and set guile up to use it. (can a newer version be used?) See here for what you have to do.
6. Install g-wrap 1.3.4 from sources (can 1.9.7 be used? - gnucash will compile and attempt to load but then crash)
7. removepkg libgsf-1.14.1-i486-1
8. Download the latest source package for libgsf from your favorite Slackware Mirror
9. Run the libgsf.SlackBuild and install the new package that now contains libgsf-gnome
10. ./configure && make && make install gnucash 2.0.4

Some possible issues might be that you might have accidentally have two packages installed at the same time if you installed the GWARE packages wrong. Everything should compile in the order given. Follow the extra notes at your own frustration.

Slack 10.1 + GnuCash 1.8

See this writeup by J. Milgram and also this writeup provided by Amigo Linux.

Slack 9.0/9.1 + GnuCash 1.8

See this writeup by RJ Marquette. RJ has also provided directions for installing the help files.

Prebuilt packages and other links

• Some pre-built GnuCash packages for Slackware, including packages for Slack 7 and 8. Haven't tried these - perhaps someone could comment on them. Some (or all?) of these were built by Jay the Obscure who offers other Slackware 10.2 Packages as well.
• Rich Shepard offers a prebuilt GnuCash 2 package for Slackware 10.2.

--Milgram 19:28, 7 January 2007 (EST)