While you’re tweaking this, consider changing the debian/derivative instructions to use ‘apt’ instead of ‘apt-get’ as my understanding the distro preferences are for the newer ‘apt’ user tool. (not to be confused, due to unfortunate naming, with the low level ‘apt’)
Regards, Adrien > On Sep 19, 2018, at 4:51 PM, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > John, Geert, Adrien, David > > Thanks for all the prespectives. I will attempt a restructure of the Building > Gnucash page and its derivatives, trying > to push as much information back to the generic Linux level as I can from the > BuildingUbuntu 16.04 pages. I have no > experience of building on Windows or MacOS X so I will definitely leave that > to someone else. I'll start with Geert's > comments as an overall plan and try to address the rest of your comments. I > can set VMs up for the other distros so I > can check them out a bit better > > With the dependencies I compiled as complete a list as I was able to from my > own experience and other users experiences > when a lot of people were building v3.0-3.2 as it wasn't available from the > distros. . I had a clean Linux Mint install > at the time I did that so I captured a few that are usually already installed > once you get a bit of other software on > board. Some distros do seem to use slightly different names for some > libraries and headers so perhaps a warning to check > your own distros naming using the equivalent of apt-cache search. I'll do as > much as I can from the online documentation > for the other distros. I I'll have a closer look and if I can get away > perhaps with a subsitute "dnf" and "yum"and > "apt" for apt-get as a note along the lines if compiling on xxx subsitute yyy > for apt-get in the following. > > I was reluctant originally to touch the Fedora and Gentoo sections as I > hadn't had any experience of them. It would > appear the major difference is likely to be the name of the package manager > on the various distros. I appreciate there > are sometimes also slight differences in the interpretation of the Linux File > Heirarchy as well. > > I'll come back when I've done a restructure and get everyone to check it out > > David Cousens > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
