If you haven’t recently, you may want to evaluate WSL again. I’ve been successful using the distribution GnuCash (4.8), the flatpack GnuCash (5.4.1), and a GnuCash build environment on the default WSL distro (ubuntu) without any additional software or configuration required on Windows 10.0.19045. The Linux VM’s X GUIs are displayed to the Window VM's Remote Desktop out of the box and a Windows GnuCash Start menu shortcut even appeared after I installed the distributed GnuCash.
Here are my installation notes: Install WSL as Administrator: wsl —install Install distributed GnuCash: sudo apt -y update sudo apt -y upgrade sudo apt -y install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 sudo apt -y install adwaita-icon-theme-full sudo apt -y install gnucash sudo apt -y install make gcc sudo gnc-fq-update Install flatpack GnuCash: sudo apt -y install flatpak sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo sudo flatpak install --system flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash Set up build environment: sudo sed -i "s/^# deb-src/deb-src/" /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt -y update sudo apt -y upgrade sudo apt -y build-dep gnucash sudo apt -y install git sudo apt -y install p7zip-full sudo apt install at-spi2-core mkdir -p ~/Documents/gnucash/source mkdir -p ~/Documents/gnucash/build git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git ~/Documents/gnucash/source cd ~/Documents/gnucash/source git checkout 5.4 Build instructions: cd ~/Documents/gnucash/build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gnucash ~/Documents/gnucash/source make sudo make install sudo /opt/gnucash/bin/gnc-fq-update On Jul 26, 2020, at 11:38 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote: > Oh. I thought that WSL2 didn't require the XServer. I did look at the WSL2 > installation page > (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) yesterday and > it's indeed a geeks-only undertaking at this point. > > It looks like we'll be stuck with MinGW for the foreseeable future. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Jul 26, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > From memory... > > and unfortunately at this point,not user friendly. > > > > With Windows 10 version 2004 installed: > > Open the Turn Windows Features on or off dialog > > Select Windows Subsystem for Linux and Virtual Machine Platform options > > Installed to WSL, a very striped down Fedora from > > https://github.com/yosukes-dev/FedoraWSL > > Used wsl to convert FedoraWSL from version 1 to version 2 "wsl > > --set-version fedora32 2" > > Logged into Fedora via the command "wsl" > > used dnf to install xfce, gnucash and several other utilities > > created a user account with the name matching my windows username > > in .bashrc set the DISPLAY variable "export DISPLAY=localhost:0" > > Back in windows, installed a windows X server: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ > > Launched the X server with the display set to 0 > > Created a shortcut with target: C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -u chris bash > > -l -c gnucash > > (when logging in to fedora via the wsl command, the .bashrc was not being > > executed so DISPLAY wasn't being set > > thus - bash -l -c gnucash) > > Double clicked the shortcut and voila -- GnuCash > > Used the file->open dialog to open my data file -- BTW, the default > > directory here was my Windows user directory > > > > The process is a bit tedious and not something a typical user should be > > asked to do, but it did work and was a fun exercise. Note that all the GC > > config and AQB stuff lives in the users Linux home dir. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:05 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 25, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > GnuCash on Fedora in WSL2 on Windows 10. Launched from desktop shortcut. > > > > > > https://imgur.com/a/ORivN9q > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Cool. How did you install it? > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
