One small wrinkle MIGHT be that the original poster (Nathan T. Alexander) is running Ubuntu 16.04 -- from April 2016 -- and although it's an LTS release and technically continues to be supported by Ubuntu, there may be some additional touches needed to get a more recent version of GnuCash to compile on a operating system that old.
P.S.: I hope several of the persons learning the intricacies of building GnuCash can learn enough to help make .dsc (Debian source package) versions for various OS revisions, instead of simply distributing the built packages. For years we have been relying upon a single Debian volunteer who packages GnuCash for Debian and he has requested help. In case folks don't know, Debian packages mostly filter "downstream" to all the derivative distributions (such as Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) that use the apt package system. With an appropriate .dsc package, anyone can use the package building commands "The Debian Way," which generates the compiled packages locally, ready to install using the apt package manager. Furthermore, putting a .dsc and a source tarball into an Ubuntu PPA allows Ubuntu's build systems to generate the packages for multiple Ubuntu releases without further intervention, and ANYONE can easily download the compiled packages from there. On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:14 PM John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > Nope. We only change dependencies in a major release, and anyway none of > those are new dependencies. Since Ubuntu has a GnuCash3 package already you > should be able to install all the dependencies with > sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash > as explained in > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux#Building_and_Installing_the_GnuCash_Program > . > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > On May 18, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Adrien Monteleone < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wow, last time I built GC for Xenial I didn’t have to install all of > that mess. Was there a major change in dependencies between 3.1 and 3.5? > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ 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.
