On 2/7/19 1:12 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:09 AM Steve Cohen <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Thank you for this! > On 1/28/19 1:55 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: > > Here are the three debian files for 3.4 (as released): > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fV_fURy6c77e7gf6S41lTacM7dFyy7VD > > > > And here are the three for 3.4-45: > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v-AWCWxbETqsXsmQ7jYX8wurL6HKASBF > > > > > > > Refresh my memory please. I believe these are complete packages > (tarballs?) containing everything needed to build your own version of > GnuCash. One set is to build version 3.4, the current stable release, > and the other is to build version 3.4.5, the current development > release which will eventually be replaced by the next stable release > 4.0?. I am guessing that there are three of each of them because they > are directed toward different current releases of Debian. I have not > downloaded them yet. > There are three .deb files in each area. Using short names -- without the version #s:
gnucash.deb gnucash-common.deb python3-gnucash.deb All three are installable packages. You need to install all three. sudo apt install ./*_3.4_*.deb for the 3.4 version and ./*_3.4-45_*.deb for the 3.4-45. I wouldn't install the last one as there is a bug with the dates around the end-of-the-year. Remember to specify the path to that debian files or apt will look online for the packages instead (and not find them). > Maybe, (and this is where I get really fuzzy) each might also work in > certain releases derived from those Debian releases such as Ubuntu. Should work on any distro that will accept a *.deb package file. Not the operative word here is "should". > > Further, I am not sure whether they will work in all distros or all of > the commonly used desktops. Since I am just smart enough to shoot > myself in the foot, I will try one in VirtualBox and keep the data > files isolated by air gaps with USB keys. Sounds like a plan. Please report back > > I plan to re-read the instructions in > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building but I may still be missing > critical steps, since this is my first try. It will take a couple of > tries with whichever distro I decide to use before I even get that > running well enough to try building GnuCash, so it may take a week or > two to see results. I am currently leaning toward Debian 9.7 Stretch > or Debian testing Buster. The latter may not even need this building > process. If this all works out I have an old Dell tower that could > become my GnuCash machine. > > Before I start, is this a viable plan? Don't bother trying to build from source. I've already done that to generate the *.deb files for you. Note: these were built on a Ubuntu 18.04 platform but using dpkg to be distro independent. Is it really distro independent? Well, only time and user base will tell us for sure. > > David Carlson --Steve -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM [email protected] [email protected] 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
