At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:10:10 -0500 John Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive > and installing gnucash on that. I could also install all my other apps > as well and not use my hard drive at all. Talk about a throw back to > the dark ages. A self booking flash drive would work. Better would be real external USB drive. It is also possible to get larger (capacity) SSDs. I have a 128GB SATA SSD in my laptop. Bought it on eBay for a not unreasonable price. > > John > > > On 07/14/2017 12:00 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing > > Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent > > storage. That is based on Debian Linux. It worked, but it was > > somewhat clumsy. The nice thing is that all the data is completely > > encrypted and insulated from intruders, "sandboxed" if you will. > > > > David C > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > > > > > On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the > > message > > > just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this to the > > > list for information. Also see reply below. > > > > > > On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Colin, > > > > > > > > Sorry for the confusion. I what to just run gnucash from the > > flash drive. > > > > Fedora will be installed on the pc and gnucash as well as all > > the gnucash > > > > data will be on the flash drive. > > > > > > To be pedantic you don't want to run gnucash from the flash > > drive, you > > > want to run gnucash from the HDD and write and read the accounts > > file > > > to the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not > > > care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports > > to be > > > on the drive there may be a little more work. > > > > Most (all?) sensibly setup and configured Linux systems will > > refuse to *run* > > programs on removable media, since that is a massive security risk. > > > > Also, gnucash is generally dynamicaly linked and depends on > > various [shared] > > libraries that would need to be installed in system places (eg > > /usr/lib[64]/) > > from various dependent packages. So it is unlikely that putting > > *just* the > > gnucash exe file on the flash drive will work. Gnucash itself > > expects to find > > stuff in /usr/share/gnucash, which won't be on the flash drive. > > And also has > > its own pile of .so files in /usr/lib[64]/ that it will need to > > access. And > > it is likely that gnucash built for, say Ubuntu, may not run *as > > is* under > > fedora, becase of different library versions (and whatnot). You > > really need > > to just install the fedora build of gnucash on the fedora (there > > most likely > > is a gnucash-<mumble>.rpm out there somewhere, probably in the fedora > > repository, so a 'sudo yum install gnucash' will do everything > > needful.) > > > > But otherwise, having the *data* files on the thumb drive is a > > perfectly > > sensible thing to do. And is possible fairly secure as well. > > > > > > > > Colin > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > >> > > > >> On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive > > using fedora? > > > >> > > > >> Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data > > file? If > > > >> you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash > > installed in > > > >> fedora on the PC then that is no problem. If you want to > > install the > > > >> program itself onto the flashdrive, with Fedora on the PC, > > then that > > > >> is more problematic. Or do you mean you want to run Fedora > > itself and > > > >> gnucash from the flash drive? > > > >> > > > >> Colin > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gnucash-user mailing list > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> > > > ----- > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 <tel:978-544-6933> > > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- Webhosting > > Services > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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