Hi Dennis, I recently updated the Ubuntu 16.04 build instructions so I am glad to get your feedback on issues which may be unclear and any errors I may have incorporated. I will try to modify the instructions to make it clearer and eliminate errors. If you find any issues that are specific to Ubuntu 18.04 please flag them as I am running Linux Mint based on 16.04 and I will add them as specific notes for 18.04. I started this after my own difficulties building Gnucash 3.0 from the original page. I have added a couple of breakout pages which give more detail about the build directory location. I noted that there is an inconsistency between the notation in the main page and the breakout page re using <target> in two contexts so I will fix that.
There is a breakoutpage also listing the CMAKE option switches. Unfortunately you do have to type the whole CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=... . Fortunately most of the option defaults are sensible. I think for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX the default is /usr/local so if you use the command without that switch it should install in that location. $HOME is usually defined as /home/<user> where <user> is the logged in username. Adding the $HOME/.local/bin is best done with $export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin. My apologies I copied that from another page and stuffed it up. This only changes the PATH variable as defined in the currently open terminal/shell. To make the changes permanent, they should be included in either the .profile file or the .bashrc file in your home directory. Cheers David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.