Or at least without all of GNOME. I’m a big fan of GnuCash, but prefer Xfce to GNOME. As GnuCash has a lot of GNOME dependencies, this makes the build process somewhat trickier. Here’s what worked for me.

• need XML::Parser
  cpan> install XML::Parser

• need ltdl.h (from libtool-devel?)
  sudo apt-get install gnome-common (didn’t supply ltdl.h)
  sudo apt-get install gnucash (didn’t supply ltdl.h)
  sudo apt-get install libltdl3-dev (supplied ltdl.h)!

• need g-wrap
  sudo apt-get install g-wrap

• need gconf-2.0 >= “2.0″ (gconf-2.0.pc)
  sudo apt-get install libgconf2-dev

• need libxml-2.0 >= 2.5.10
  sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

• need libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.4
  sudo apt-get install libgnomeui-dev

• need libgnomeprint-2.2 libgnomeprintui-2.2
  sudo apt-get install libgnomeprintui2.2-dev

• need libgtkhtml-3.8
  sudo apt-get install libgtkhtml3.8-dev

• after all that, GnuCash dies on startup with:
  : In procedure scm-error in expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...):
: no code for module (g-wrap gw standard)
  The answer:
  sudo apt-get install guile-g-wrap