Author: randy
Date: 2006-04-18 16:53:08 -0600 (Tue, 18 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 5876
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/gnucash.xml
Log:
Updated to GnuCash-1.8.12
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2006-04-18 21:34:23 UTC (rev 5875)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent 2006-04-18 22:53:08 UTC (rev 5876)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!ENTITY day "18"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "19"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "04"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2006">
<!ENTITY version "svn-&year;&month;&day;">
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@
<!-- Chapter 34 -->
<!ENTITY AbiWord-version "2.4.2">
<!ENTITY gnumeric-version "1.6.3">
-<!ENTITY gnucash-version "1.8.11">
+<!ENTITY gnucash-version "1.8.12">
<!ENTITY gimp-version "2.2.10">
<!ENTITY evolution-version "2.4.2.1">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2006-04-18 21:34:23 UTC
(rev 5875)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2006-04-18 22:53:08 UTC
(rev 5876)
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>April 19th, 2006</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[randy] - Updated to GnuCash-1.8.12.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>April 18th, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/gnucash.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/gnucash.xml 2006-04-18 21:34:23 UTC (rev 5875)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/gnucash.xml 2006-04-18 22:53:08 UTC (rev 5876)
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@
<!ENTITY gnucash-download-http
"http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-&gnucash-version;.tar.gz";>
<!ENTITY gnucash-download-ftp
"ftp://ftp.at.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-&gnucash-version;.tar.gz";>
- <!ENTITY gnucash-src-md5sum "62f94331936e37ed1b1d28b5a1863bb3">
- <!ENTITY gnucash-docs-md5sum "9758d8e523530c2509912761e327a9d5">
- <!ENTITY gnucash-size "7.8 MB">
- <!ENTITY gnucash-buildsize "113 MB (additional 22 MB for Help
documentation)">
- <!ENTITY gnucash-time "2.9 SBU">
+ <!ENTITY gnucash-src-md5sum "81e7c703db56bb203e106664157779cc">
+ <!ENTITY gnucash-size "8.2 MB">
+ <!ENTITY gnucash-buildsize "123 MB (additional 22 MB for Help
documentation)">
+ <!ENTITY gnucash-time "3.2 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU to run the test
suite)">
<!ENTITY gnucash-docs-version "1.8.5">
<!ENTITY gnucash-docs-download
"http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-docs-&gnucash-docs-version;.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY gnucash-docs-md5sum "9758d8e523530c2509912761e327a9d5">
]>
<sect1 id="gnucash" xreflabel="GnuCash-&gnucash-version;">
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
<xref linkend="gtkhtml1"/>,
<xref linkend="libghttp"/>,
<xref linkend="gwrap"/>, and
- <xref linkend="slib"/></para>
+ <xref linkend="perl-xml-parser"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="postgresql"/>,
@@ -90,17 +90,15 @@
<ulink url="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/";>Electric Fence</ulink></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (for On-Line Banking)</bridgehead>
- <para role="optional"><ulink
url="http://libofx.sourceforge.net/";>LibOFX</ulink>
+ <para role="optional"><ulink
+ url="http://libofx.sourceforge.net/";>LibOFX</ulink>
(requires <xref linkend="opensp"/> and <xref linkend="curl"/>),
<ulink
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktoblzcheck";>KtoBlzCheck</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aqhbci";>AqHBCI</ulink>
- (requires
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwenhywfar";>Gwenhywfar</ulink>
- then
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/aqbanking";>AqBanking</ulink>),
- and also see
- <ulink
-
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libchipcard";>libchipcard</ulink></para>
+ and <ulink url="http://www.aquamaniac.de/aqbanking/";>AqBanking</ulink>
+ (requires <ulink
+ url="http://gwenhywfar.sourceforge.net/";>Gwenhywfar</ulink>
+ and also see <ulink
+ url="http://www.libchipcard.de/";>libchipcard2</ulink>)</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gnucash"/></para>
@@ -113,21 +111,41 @@
<para>Install <application>GnuCash</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 --sysconfdir=/etc \
- --disable-guppi --disable-error-on-warning &&
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/^\(host_os=.*\)$/\1-gnu/' configure &&
+./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \
+ --sysconfdir=/etc \
+ --disable-guppi \
+ --disable-error-on-warning &&
make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, issue <command>make check</command> as the
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user as the test suite will
- attempt to update the <application>SLIB</application> catalog in
- <filename class='directory'>/usr/share/guile</filename>. All tests should
- pass.</para>
+ <para>To test the results, issue <command>make check</command>. All tests
+ should pass. An easy way to look at the results of the tests is to issue
+ <command>grep -A1 ============== check.log</command> (this is assuming you
+ redirected the output from the tests to the aforementioned
filename).</para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
-<screen role='root'><userinput>make install &&
-chown -v -R root:root
/opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnucash/doc/html/html</userinput></screen>
+<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+ <para>If desired, create a symbolic link from the
+ <application>GnuCash</application> documentation directory to the
+ system-wide documentation directory using the following command as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role='root'><userinput>ln -v -s /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnucash/doc \
+ /usr/share/doc/gnucash-&gnucash-version;</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>If desired, create symbolic links to the
+ <application>GnuCash</application> <filename>.desktop</filename> and icon
+ files in the system-wide directories using the following commands as the
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
+
+<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/pixmaps/gnucash
&&
+ln -v -s /opt/gnome-1.4/share/pixmaps/gnucash/gnucash-icon.png \
+ /usr/share/pixmaps/gnucash &&
+ln -v -s /opt/gnome-1.4/share/gnome/apps/Applications/gnucash.desktop \
+ /usr/share/applications</userinput></screen>
+
<para>If you want to install the Help documentation (requires
<xref linkend="scrollkeeper"/> to be installed), unpack the additional
tarball, change into the
@@ -136,7 +154,7 @@
user:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \
- --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
+ --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
@@ -148,6 +166,11 @@
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
+ <para><command>sed -i 's/^\(host_os=.*\)$/\1-gnu/' configure</command>:
+ This command is used to fix a broken <command>configure</command> script.
+ Without it, no shared libraries are built, and the program will not
+ function properly.</para>
+
<para><parameter>--prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4</parameter>:
<application>GnuCash</application>-&gnucash-version; is a
<application>GNOME</application>-1.4 application.</para>
@@ -172,11 +195,12 @@
to build in on-line banking support using
<application>LibOFX</application>.</para>
- <para><option>--enable-hbci</option>: This parameter is required if you
want
- to build in on-line banking support using
- <application>AqBanking</application>/<application>AqHBCI</application>. See
+ <para><option>--enable-hbci</option>: This parameter is required if you
+ want to build in on-line banking support using
+ <application>AqBanking</application>. See
<filename>doc/README.HBCI</filename> in the
- <application>GnuCash</application> source tree for complete
information.</para>
+ <application>GnuCash</application> source tree for complete
+ information.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -193,6 +217,7 @@
<xref linkend="perl-html-parser"/>, <xref linkend="perl-finance-quote"/>
and <xref linkend="perl-finance-quotehist"/>.</para>
+ <!--
<note>
<para><application>GnuCash</application> must be run as
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> once before use. Simply
@@ -200,10 +225,9 @@
terminal and clicking on the cancel button is sufficient. This must be
done prior to setting up accounts as an unprivileged user, due to the
fact that <application>GnuCash</application> must update scheme
catalogs
- before it is used. If you ran the test suite as the
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user during the build
- instructions, this step is not necessary.</para>
+ before it is used.</para>
</note>
+ -->
</sect3>
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