On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:24:32 +0200, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I tried installing gnucash on slackware 12.1 and found it to be a
> nightmare. Actually I stranded on gware.org and gnomeslackbuild.org for
> installing gnome. This seems to be a huge install for a single programm.
>
> Please recommend programms with similar functionality like gnucash, but
> with lesser installation efford.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> Eric Böse-Wolf
>
GnomeSlackBuild claims to have a working gnucash package, but I haven't
tried it. I would try that route first, based on my experience below.

Just for grins, I attempted to compile gnucash 2.2.6 on my system
(Dropline Gnome on Slackware 12.0.) This did not result in success (yet).
I googled the errors that crop up along the way and see they are fairly
common. Apparently, a very big hammer is required to get gnucash to
compile from source. I think I'll give up for now.

I added these dependancies (beyond base dropline 2.20)
1. SLIB (required some tweaking)
2. goffice
3. g-wrap (not sure this is actually installed correctly)
4. gnucash configure fails with this:

checking for libgtkhtml-3.14... no
configure: error: Goffice uses Cairo/GtkPrint but didn't find GtkHTML with
GtkPrint support

--
Douglas Mayne

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:24:32 +0200, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I tried installing gnucash on slackware 12.1 and found it to be a
> nightmare. Actually I stranded on gware.org and gnomeslackbuild.org for
> installing gnome. This seems to be a huge install for a single programm.

You could try and install Gnome Slacky, from slacky.eu. Unlike
Gware, Dropline, etc. it is not intrusive, the installation process is
tricial, it does not render Slackware unstable, and it works out of the
box.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:25:38 -0600, Douglas Mayne wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:24:32 +0200, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I tried installing gnucash on slackware 12.1 and found it to be a
>> nightmare. Actually I stranded on gware.org and gnomeslackbuild.org for
>> installing gnome. This seems to be a huge install for a single programm.
>>
>> Please recommend programms with similar functionality like gnucash, but
>> with lesser installation efford.
>>
>> Yours sincerely
>>
>> Eric Böse-Wolf
>>
> GnomeSlackBuild claims to have a working gnucash package, but I haven't
> tried it. I would try that route first, based on my experience below.
>
> Just for grins, I attempted to compile gnucash 2.2.6 on my system
> (Dropline Gnome on Slackware 12.0.) This did not result in success (yet).
> I googled the errors that crop up along the way and see they are fairly
> common. Apparently, a very big hammer is required to get gnucash to
> compile from source. I think I'll give up for now.
>
> I added these dependancies (beyond base dropline 2.20)
> 1. SLIB (required some tweaking)
> 2. goffice
> 3. g-wrap (not sure this is actually installed correctly)
> 4. gnucash configure fails with this:
>
> checking for libgtkhtml-3.14... no
> configure: error: Goffice uses Cairo/GtkPrint but didn't find GtkHTML with
> GtkPrint support
>
Continuing after finding a small sledge hammer...

First, it was my fault because I missed installing this Dropline package:
gtkhtml-3.16.3-i686-1dl

With this package installed the source builds. Here is a screenshot of the
initial setup:
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne2/mi...8-08-30.01.png

I elected to use the default prefix of /usr/local to avoid interfering
with my setup (just in case something went wrong, etc.) I believe the
install required about 59M (as measured by du -sh /usr/local)

As mentioned, the SLIB required a bit of tweaking. Here are some general
instructions which were required to get guile/slib finally configured.

The setup for slib v. 3b1 on guile v. 1.8.5 required a bit of tweaking.
The directory below must exist and the symbolic link must be set:

$ mkdir /usr/local/share/guile/site
$ (cd /usr/local/lib/slib && ln -s mklibcat.scm mklibcat)

After which it can be configured, per the other instructions:
$ guile
guile> (use-module (ice-9 slib))
guile> (require 'new-catalog)
guile> (quit)

--
Douglas Mayne

eric.boese-wolf@uni-ulm.de (Eric Böse-Wolf) writes:

> Please recommend programms with similar functionality like gnucash, but
> with lesser installation efford.

I am a heay user of ledger which is great and does not need tons
of dependancies to be installed. I have a slackbuild if you are
interested. What's great with ledger is that it also can be
interfaced in several emacs mode such as org-mode for example.
Though you do not need emacs to take all the power of ledger.

Regards

Thanks for all the answers!

I finally managed to compile gnucash on the basis of gware.org (also
unintrusive, but I will switch to slacky.eu sometimes) and goffice 0.6
(it didn't compile with 0.7).

Eric

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:24:32 +0200, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:

> Please recommend programms with similar functionality like gnucash, but
> with lesser installation efford.

Here are some suggestions, Eric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...nting_software

http://www.ossramblings.com/cbtracker

http://qhacc.sourceforge.net/

http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/

http://buddi.thecave.homeunix.org/en/

http://jgnash.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://gfd.sourceforge.net/
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eric.boese-wolf@uni-ulm.de (Eric Böse-Wolf) writes:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I tried installing gnucash on slackware 12.1 and found it to be a
> nightmare. Actually I stranded on gware.org and gnomeslackbuild.org for
> installing gnome. This seems to be a huge install for a single programm.
>
> Please recommend programms with similar functionality like gnucash, but
> with lesser installation efford.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> Eric Böse-Wolf
>
>

I have done it successfully, but as you note it requires a gnome
installation, I have used gware.org. I have a gnucash slackware
package available at:

http://nic-nac-project.org/~lwedding/slackware-12.1/

Also two additional packages are required (also available at that
link):
- slib
- goffice

I have also added the slib package to http://www.linuxpackages.net/, and
plan to add the others when I get around to it.

--
Leigh Wedding
leigh.wedding@telstra.DELETE-this.com