gnucash and gnome

Elizabeth Dodd edodd at billiau.net
Mon Apr 28 05:04:07 EDT 2008


On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Steve Brenneis wrote:
> I run a small business and was looking forward to using gnucash. I use
> Gentoo Linux for most of my server and laptop applications. Using portage,
> I checked out what would be necessary to put gnucash on my laptop. That's
> when the fun began. I am a KDE user, so I'm sure you know what's coming.
> The list of packages needed to install gnucash looks like this:

Yes, I'm sure that all that did get installed, but it manages itself (although 
I use a GUI for portage to help me).
When I was using Red Hat, years ago, this was a trouble as I entered rpm 
dependency hell, but the list of dependencies now to be collected no longer 
fazes me.
I just leave the machine running until its ready.
If I lived in a third world country with poor quality, possibly censored dial 
up slow internet, then it wouldn't be feasible to run gentoo and I'd have to 
use a pre built binary package for gnucash. I guess Mr Shuttleworth would 
send me one of his free DVDS and I'd use that.



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