Gnucash fails to install: configure dbus-glib failure

[Randall Wood]

Uninstalling the old version and installing the new version is  
recommended. However, some programs that were bound against the old  
version may nor run correctly. These programs should then be rebuilt.

On 22 Apr 2007, at 11:03, Bjorn Berg wrote:

> I checked for dbus. It's invoked on my command line to start GNOME.
> So a ran a search and an install and got this trace:
>
> port search dbus
> dbus                           devel/dbus     1.0.2        A  
> message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one  
> another.
> dbus-glib                      devel/dbus-glib 0.73         Glib  
> bindings for the dbus message bus system.
> IBook:~ bj$ sudo port install dbus
> --->  Activating dbus 1.0.2_2
> Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: Image error: Another  
> version of dbus (0.61_2) is already active.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> If I uninstall the older version what flaky behaviour can I expect  
> trying to install the new one?
>
> Bj
>
>
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2007, at 01:43, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2007, at 00:16, Bjorn Berg wrote:
>>>
>>>> --->  Configuring dbus-glib
>>> [snip]
>>>> checking for DBUS... configure: error: DBus development  
>>>> libraries not found
>>>
>>> So you're trying to install dbus-glib, and it can't find the dbus  
>>> libraries. I imagine this would be fixed by installing the dbus  
>>> port first. Please try that and let us know if that fixes it.  
>>> Then we can add that as a dependency to the dbus-glib port so  
>>> that this situation is handled automatically in the future.
>>
>> Um... Sorry, I see that dbus-glib already declares dbus as a  
>> dependency.
>>
>> So is dbus installed?
>>
>>
>>
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