Geert,
Agree with all the points you and david Carlson made. I had expected and
guessed that the GnuCashbuild configured its search directories for
resources from the cmake install prefix, but hadn't actually checked it out
to be sure.
The problem as I see it is recommending a setup for a
Colin
There is no reason why the install directory can't just be an ordinary
directory. There is no real reason for it to be hidden. It is what I use if
I do do a local install. The only possible advantage is that if you can hide
the directory it doesn't clutter the view of files when you won't
Op vrijdag 3 mei 2019 03:09:43 CEST schreef David Cousens:
> Hi John,
>
> It was because of a number of posts in the forum, not sure whether DEV or
> USER around the time I reworked the pages which suggested $HOME/.local for
> single user local installations of GnuCash . I think it may also have
On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 07:26, David Cousens wrote:
> ...
> I.e. we recommend using cmake commands as follows for inexperienced or users
> who don't have admin privileges rather than simply installing directly under
> $HOME/.local which already has a gnucash directory for GnuCash user
>
John, Geert et al
I have not been able to find any references on user directory organization
apart from the XDG
(https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html).
There was one comment in this link
(https://itsfoss.com/install-software-from-source-code/) which
Hi John,
It was because of a number of posts in the forum, not sure whether DEV or
USER around the time I reworked the pages which suggested $HOME/.local for
single user local installations of GnuCash . I think it may also have been
specified the previous Wiki page I started from as well. At the
Correction: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html says
that AT invented /opt for SYSV.
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html is as close to
canonical as one gets for what different parts of the file hierarchy are for
and how they should be used.
AT Unix and the real BSD did have /usr/local as the place for installing
stuff not part of the system. Sun Microsystems started using that for their
Solaris extensions to BSD and invented /opt as the place for locally-installed
packages. Both typically require root to install into and some
On many varieties of Linux /usr/local is the conventional location to
add locally built packages. In this case probably /usr/local/gnucash.
I think the build instructions used to suggest that but I may be
mistaken.
Colin
On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 17:27, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> Op donderdag 2 mei
Op donderdag 2 mei 2019 18:03:22 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell:
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:02 AM Geert Janssens
>
> wrote:
> > Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https://
> > wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid
> > installation prefix.
>
>
> On May 2, 2019, at 4:01 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https://
> wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid
> installation prefix.
>
> While checking for another thread I have found this to be
Yes, something like that would make more sense to me as well.
Op donderdag 2 mei 2019 17:03:53 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone:
> Good question.
>
> I’ve never used that location, and have not otherwise seen any
> recommendation to use it for a single/local-user installation.
>
> I’ve seen
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:02 AM Geert Janssens
wrote:
> Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https://
> wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid
> installation prefix.
>
...
> So personally I would recommend against using $HOME/.local as
Good question.
I’ve never used that location, and have not otherwise seen any recommendation
to use it for a single/local-user installation.
I’ve seen people recommend to recreate the official tree under ~/ (~/usr,
~/usr/local, ~/usr/bin) which doesn’t make much sense to me, or something else
Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https://
wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid
installation prefix.
While checking for another thread I have found this to be problematic.
In particular when using this installation prefix, a number of
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