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FC5/RHEL4/CentOS4.3

See [1] or [2].

RHEL5/SL5

Getting GnuCash 2.2.0 to install on RHEL 5 and recompiled editions (specifically tested: Fermi SL 5.0 with updates as of 7/25/2007, but it should work on all RHEL5 recompiles). I haven't yet created the RPM like I used to with RHEL3 and GC1.8.9, maybe one day I'll get to that and document it here...

Optional: boot from sl50 livecd

The installations below are based on the default RPM selections of the SL5.0 LiveCD. I tested this off the LiveCD directly as well as Installing to Hard Drive from the LiveCD. If you installed your OS from the install CD's/DVD, you might already have a lot of these RPM's installed; no harm done.

• yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
• yum install libgnomeui-devel perl-XML-Parser guile-devel libgnomeprint22-devel
• yum install libgsf-devel pcre pcre-devel gettext gettext-devel gtkhtml3-devel

• download slib-3a3 (NOT slib-3a4)
  • [3]
• install expanded slib/ subdirectory and move it into /usr/share
• ln -s /usr/share/slib /usr/share/guile/slib
• Create SLIB catalog indirectly by invoking it first time; you need to do this as user with write permissions into /usr/share/slib
  • guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)"

• download goffice-0.4.1 (0.4.1 is what I used; 0.4.2 released on 7/23/2007)
  • [4]
• ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, make install

• download gnucash-2.2.0 (and docs if you want help system to work)
  • [5]
  • [6]
• ./configure, make, make install