Dear Gerald,
since I am retired, I have not been as heavily involved in the GNU
Health project in recent years. Nevertheless, I took your email as an
opportunity to try to install GNU Health on my new work computer running
Ubuntu 25.4. Unfortunately, I failed in the end when I tried to run
gnuhealth-client.
Therefore, I cannot provide any substantial feedback, except that I am
still waiting for a way to install GNU Health as a normal user (and not
as a “power user” or even a “developer”).
All the best,
Edgar
Am 26.07.2025 um 21:55 schrieb Gerald Wiese:
Hi everyone,
the last years I put quite much effort into improving installation
related things here and there and thought that we would end up
synchronizing manual (Vanilla) and automated (Ansible) things.
Now I see much of my work, propositions and discussions discarded and
don’t really feel satisfied but rather reluctant to just automate the
result of todays Vanilla installation.
In the end we have a new interactive Python script with new complexity
but nobody joined to work on Ansible which was already rather too
complex than too simple and which is already THE Python thing to use
for creating directories, installing packages and so on.
Furthermore I did not really see contributions, concrete feedback,
opened issues or something similar regarding the system administration
gimmicks which I added on top of the automation of the installation.
What I did today is to restore the last stable documentation that was
overwritten by outdated content and to push Ansible version 1.5.1
which is still diverging from Vanilla Installation but running with
new PyPI versions of GH packages and some problems fixed that were
introduced from latest Ansible versions.
Before I put more work I would like to have some honest feedback like
how much is the GH Ansible project actually used and how should it
develop?
For example should it:
A) Get dropped
B) Just have Vanilla automated and tested but remove further features
C) Automate Vanilla and continue as before with further features
Let me know what you think please!
Best
Gerald
