How to install GnuCash?

[Chanchao]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:50 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:

> > checking if (www main) is available... no
> > checking for gconf-2.0 >= "2.0"... Package gconf-2.0 was not found in
> > the pkg-config 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
> 
> What happens if you apt-get install: gconf2 & gconf2-common?

Those are installed according to Synaptic. 

> What does "locate gconf-2.0.pc" give? 

Nothing. No error message or any other kind of response, I just get the
prompt back.

If I do locate gconf2 I get: 

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/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgconf2-4.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2-common.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2.prerm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgconf2-4.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgconf2-4.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgconf2-4.shlibs
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2-common.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgconf2-4.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2-common.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2-common.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2-common.md5sums
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-oldxml.so
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/TODO
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/README
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/copyright
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/gconf2-common/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/gconf2
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/TODO
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/FAQ.gz
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/README
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/copyright
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/gconf2/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/README
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/changelog.Debian.gz

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> Is it mentioning it because you
> have it, rather than gconf-2.0? If so, what happens after:
> 
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=PKG_CONFIG_PATH:path_to_gconf-2.0.pc

I don't have anything with gconf in the name that ends in ".pc" .

I did try:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/lib/libgconf2-4

but this did not make a difference when running ./configure.

I'm now installing every package that has 'gconf' in the name in
Synaptic, see if that makes a difference.

Cheers,
Chanchao