[LUNI] the classic question

[Peter Harkins]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:48:24AM -0800, Casey Cichon wrote:
> I like doing things the hard way.
> 
> I prefer Slackware ........ never have had any problems with it.
> 
> I've only had one major software problems......
> 
> 1) Can't get gnucash to install -- missing some dependancy (i don't understand how, I'm running Slack 8).

	That's probably Slack following the filesystem standard. Some other
distros put GNOME (and KDE and similar) stuff in /usr rather than in /opt
where it belongs. Because, for some unfathomable reason, these other distros
are more popular than Slack packages get build with poor defaults.
Investigate the options to /configure (use --help | less to list; problably
something like --with-gnome-libs=/opt/gnome) or post the last dozen lines of
the failed make - we'll see if it's something straightforward like this.