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rek769 · Joined: 15 Jul 2010 Posts: 26

OK guys...I have been trying to create an SFS file from the 16 txz files that come down from the slacko repos for the GnuCash application.

I am using the mksquashfs utility and have successfully created the gnucash.sfs file. However, trying the run gnucash results in his error message:

"gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-gnome.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory."

What I have discovered is that there is a file named:
libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0 within the sfs file.

So it seems that gnucash is asking for the file to load but is asking for it's shortened name

Any insight on how to fix this problem?

I am running a frugal install of puppy_slacko_5.5 on a fat32 formatted USB drive.

R-S-H · Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 367

Try to make a symlink libgnc-gnome.so.0 to the file libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0 inside the sfs or inside the OS for testings.

Might work.

If not you got to search for the lib.

RSH

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Standard slackware packages do not contain any symbolic links. You have to run the install/doinst.sh file relative to where you unpack the package. If you take a look at install/doinst.sh you will see that many symbolic links will be made on installation. I have a very rough script to do just what you want.

rek769 · Joined: 15 Jul 2010 Posts: 26

I've been working on this off and on for the past couple of days with no luck.

I first reformatted my USB drive to ext2 and frugal-ed slacko 5.5 onto it again.

Micko, I tried using your script but I couldn't get any sort of response out of it when I tried to execute it. (I saved it as "create.sh" and gave it the appropriate executable permissions).

I tried running it from the directory that holds all 16 of the compressed "txz" files...no go.

Then I tried extracting all 16 into a separate directory and running your script there after all were extracted..no go.

(no go = no terminal window or any other indication it was running)

After these attempts I simply tried running the doinst.sh file manually after each txz file was extracted. That resulted in symlinks being created in the install directory but at the end of the process all symlinks were red/broken. (I extracted all 16 txz files into the same top level directory so that the doinst.sh file was rewritten each time. Then I gave each new doinst.sh file execute permissions and ran it.)

I have a feeling I am in a little over my head as I am not well versed in scripting.

As a side note, I did try to simply install Gnucash from the repository (not make an sfs file). Everything seemed to install but upon execution I got the same error message that I initially posted about above.

Thanks in advance for any other hand-holding you are willing to do with me.