Hi Frank, Your strace suggestion was successful thanks. I am using the flathub stable GnuCash flatpak.
1. strace showed both environmentand & environment.local should be in /app/etc/gnucash to be read by GnuCash sandbox. Investigation shows that this comes from the host file system /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/etc/gnucash. Sandbox /app/etc is HARD linked to host /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/etc This is the expected location for a flatpak that is for ALL users, but I thought I installed it just for my user. It turns out that the installation instructions in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Installation are wrong, at least for Ubuntu 20.04 flatpak 1.65. Our wiki says: # Install GnuCash ... ## for all users sudo flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash ## or only you flatpak install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash but the Ubuntu man page says (my words): ## for all users flatpak install --system flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash ## or only you: flatpak install --user flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash And, although the man page doesn't say it, --system is the default and does NOT need sudo, so my flatpak installed in the system location (/var/lib/flatpak) rather than the user location (~/.local/share/flatpak). Can some-one please let me know if the GnuCash wiki is outdated, or just wrong, or just wrong for Ubuntu so I can update it? 2. I just created an environment.local file in /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/etc/gnucash from outside the sandbox, and after the sandbox is started, it is able to access /app/etc/gnucash/environment.local. I suspect that may go missing after a flatpak update - Is there a better way? 3. Even though the GC sandbox read environment.local setting LANG=en_GB and LANGUAGE={LANG}, and I checked en_GB is available in my flatpak GnuCash shell the trace file still shows: Effective locale set to en_AU.UTF-8 Perhaps this message is misleading? I wonder how to check what is actually being used? As changing the LANG is probably a major reason for using environment.local, shall I create a bug to record this problem? Regards, Chris Good -----Original Message----- From: Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, 25 April 2021 1:09 AM To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com>; gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] flatpak environment.local Hi Chris, can you use strace to find the used config? BTW you did not tell, which flatpak you are using: Flathub, Nightly, self built; version, … Regards Frank Am 23.04.21 um 04:54 schrieb Chris Good: > Hi Frank, > > Thanks for the suggestion. > ~/.local/share/flatpak/app does not exist in my system (Ubuntu 20.04 flatpak > 1.65). > Not sure if relevant, but I installed the GnuCash flatpak for only my user - > i.e. NOT using sudo. > > I'm not sure setting LANG=en_GB in environment.local was a good test of if > environment.local is being used. > I did the same in Windows and the trace file message still shows the > effective local has not been altered. > I did check en_GB is available in my flatpak GnuCash shell. > > I'm happy to update the wiki when I know where environment.local should be or > if it is not used. > > BTW jralls in > https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/issues/24#issuecomment-651967321 > says: > I've patched guile to not do the timestamp check and just use any .go files > it finds. Has that helped? > > And another user says it fixed the issue of .scm files being recompiled on > every launch. > But I still needed to touch all the .go files in Ubuntu (and derivates as the > flatpak wiki says). Any idea why jralls' fix doesn't help in Ubuntu? > > Regards, > Chris Good > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2021 11:49 PM > To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com>; gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] flatpak environment.local > > Hi Chris, > > Flatpak is at first a sandbox. > > I suspect you are searching for > ~/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/et > c/gnucash/environment > > Can you after testing update > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations and add a link > in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak > > Regards > Frank > > Am 22.04.21 um 08:38 schrieb Chris Good: >> Hi, >> >> (disclosure: I'm a flatpak newbie) >> >> I'm trying to update my BackupGnuCash utility >> (https://github.com/goodvibes2/BackupGnuCashLinux) to cater for Flatpak. >> >> I'm trying to find out if environment.local needs to be backed up, >> and if so, where it should be. >> >> I created an environment.local containing: >> >> # 22/04/2021 CRG Set LANG to en_GB to test where environment.local >> should be in flatpak LANG=en_GB LANGUAGE={LANG} And put it in >> >> /etc/gnucash >> and >> /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/current/active/files/etc/gnu >> c >> ash >> >> But when GnuCash is restarted, the trace file still shows: >> >> INFO <gnc.gui> [Gnucash::CoreApp::start] Effective locale set to >> en_AU.UTF-8. >> >> Can flatpak GnuCash read an environment.local file and if so, where >> should it be? >> >> Regards, >> >> Chris Good >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel