Getting GnuCash 2.2.0 to install on Redhat EL 5 knock offs
(specifically Fermi SL 5.0 with updates as of 7/25/2007, but it should
work on all RHEL5 knock offs).  I'm not creating the RPM at the moment,
maybe one day I'll get to that.  For now I just really needed to get
GnuCash working on my SL5 box.

-- Dan Widyono  20070725


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.


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)
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/ftpdir/scm/OLD/slib3a3.tar.gz
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
# 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)
http://freshmeat.net/redir/goffice/58291/url_tgz/goffice-0.4.2.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=/usr, make, make install

download gnucash-2.2.0 (and docs if you want help system to work)
http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-2.2.0.tar.bz2
http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-docs-2.2.0.tar.gz
./configure, make, make install

YAY!