I guess it's lucky that John only wants to load his data from the
flash drive, then.
John, be aware that GnuCash always tries to load the last file it
had open; if the folder isn't available when you fire it up, you
will receive an error. Just be sure the USB stick is inserted and
mounted before you start GC, and you should be fine.
David
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*From:* David Carlson <[email protected]
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*Sent:* Fri Jul 14 22:00:33 GMT+05:00 2017
*To:* Robert Heller <[email protected]
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*Cc:* "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>"
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<mailto:[email protected]>, John Wright
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*Subject:* Re: Flash Drive
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]>>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
> At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law
<[email protected] <mailto:[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]>> <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]>> <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
> > >
> > >
> >
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