How to install GnuCash?

[Chanchao]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:51 +0700, Chanchao wrote:

> I tried downloading it -there's no specific Ubuntu version- but it just
> gave me a folder with loads of files and no clear way to proceed with
> the install.  (It actually seems they expect people to compile?  

Ok, did give compiling a try.  That was 1.5 hours ago of downloading
missing packages after ./configure choked on something.  

But 'configure' still ends in an error about a package that actually is
installed. it says:

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checking for gconf-2.0 >= "2.0"... Package gconf-2.0 was not found in
the pkg-co nfig search path. Perhaps you should add the directory
containing `gconf-2.0.pc'  to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gconf-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gconf-2.0 >= "2.0") not met;
consider ad justing the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your
libraries are in a nons tandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

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However, apt-cache search gconf displays:

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gconf-editor - An editor for the GConf configuration system
gconf2 - GNOME configuration database system (support tools)
gconf2-common - GNOME configuration database system (common files)
libextutils-pkgconfig-perl - simplistic perl interface to pkg-config
libgconf2-4 - GNOME configuration database system (shared libraries)
libgconf2-dev - GNOME configuration database system (development)
libgconf2.0-cil - CLI binding for GConf 2.12
libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 - C++ wrappers for GConf (shared library)
libgconfmm-2.6-dev - C++ wrappers for GConf (development files)
libuniconf4.2 - C++ network libraries for rapid application development
sabayon - system administration tool to manage GNOME desktop settings
xchat-gnome - a new frontend to the popular X-Chat IRC client
celestia-gnome - A real-time visual space simulation (Gnome frontend)
drivel - LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop
freeloader - A nice GNOME download manager supporting torrents
gconf - GNOME configuration database system. (daemon and tools)
gtweakui - A collection of simple dialogs as a front end to GConf
guile-gnome0-gconf - Guile bindings for GConf
libapache-dbilogconfig-perl - Apache::DBILogConfig: Logs access
information in a DBI database
libgconf-cil - CLI binding for GConf
libgconf-dev - GNOME configuration database system development files.
libgconf-java - LIBGCONF bindings for Java
libgconf11 - GNOME configuration database system libraries
libgconf2-ruby - GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby language
libgnome2-gconf-perl - Perl interface to the GNOME GConf library
libgopersist-1-1 - Serialisation and deserialisation of GObject
libgopersist-1-1-dbg - Serialisation and deserialisation of GObjects
(debug files)
libgopersist-1-dev - Serialisation and deserialisation of GObjects
(development files)
libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 - GConf support for GStreamer
libgstreamer-gconf0.8-dev - Development files for GConf support for
GStreamer
pessulus - lockdown editor for GNOME
openoffice.org - OpenOffice.org Office suite version 2.0
openoffice.org-gnome - GNOME Integration for OpenOffice.org (Widgets,
Dialogs, VFS, GConf)

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So gconf2 is mentioned.  Is the problem that it's not the same name as
expected by GnuCash?  ("gconf-2.0") That'd be pretty stupid. It mentions
a PATH however but no clue where this is configured or installed.

Fun.

Cheers,
Chanchao