Ken As Adrien has indicated once you move past installing the distributions repository version, you are relying on an individual making a package available or buidling the version from sources yourself. There are so many different Linux distributions that it is really not possible to produce totally generic installation instructions that will work flawlessly on all distributions.
The build instructions in the Building GnuCash on Linux should work for Debian and Ubuntu distributions as is. Once you have the build environment setup and the dependencies installed as per the instructions, the actual build itself is not too difficult, just follow the instructions. If you get errors, the error messages generally indicate what packages are missing or are not the correct version. If you have problems come back to the list and tell us what is happening and we can usually sort it out. If you are concerned about affecting the system, you can do a local single user install under your home directory but an install to a system location such as /usr/local is actually easier as you won't need to create softlinks and add directories to the path variable to make running GnuCash easy as this is all done for you. While it is possible to break a Linux system, it is generally much harder to do tahn you would think. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
