How to install GnuCash?

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:40:37 +0700
Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 20:05 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> >  [Snipped:  Lots of stuff about ./configure complaining it can't
> > find stuff  ;-)  ]
> > 
> > Chanchao, have you tried this, *before*  you run ./configure :
> > 
> > sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash                          ?
> 
> 
> Ah..!  I guess that would work, even though it's the old gnucash
> version??  Will try it right away...  So far happily chugging along with
> libgnomeui-dev, libgnomeprint-dev, libgnomeprintui-dev, libgtkhtml-dev,
> etc etc etc ... :)
> 
> However................ just ran apt-get build-dep gnucash but it did
> not work:
> 
> ---
> 
> # apt-get build-dep gnucash
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree... Done
>  E: Unable to find a source package for gnucash
> 

$ sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bonobo gconf gdk-imlib11 gdk-imlib11-dev gnome-bin gnome-libs-data
guile-1.6 guile-1.6-dev guile-1.6-slib imlib-base indent libart-dev
libart2 libaudiofile-dev libbonobo-dev libbonobo2 libcapplet1
libcapplet1-dev libdb3 libdb3-dev libefs-dev libefs1 libesd0-dev
libfinance-quote-perl  .............

[ big snip ] ..........
...........................

0 upgraded, 91 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 86.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

;-)

Relevant lines that are possibly missing in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
multiverse

[ignore the wraps if any , and of course the au. prefix ]

gnucash is a "universe" package, so the "multiverse" entries are probably
not needed. Note that the packages that will be installed by "apt-get
build-dep"  are not source packages - but if apt thinks no source exists
for gnucash,  it will fall over, as you saw...

Peter