Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

> On Feb 28, 2018, at 2:47 AM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 02:54:09 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: >> Indeed, following a combination of the Trusty instructions and then part of >> the sequence for Autotools from the 2.8 instructions

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 02:54:09 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone: > Indeed, following a combination of the Trusty instructions and then part of > the sequence for Autotools from the 2.8 instructions did the trick, without > incident or missing dependencies. (I slightly modified the exact wiki >

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

It seems I spoke too soon. While the build went fine and I can launch the app from CLI, I can’t seem to get a proper .desktop file to be recognized by Unity, or successfully ‘Add to Dash/Lock to Launcher’ after a CLI run. (any such launcher wants to lock as ‘Unsaved book’ and won’t launch

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Thanks Plutocrat, I noted the same staleness of version in the original post and David Carlson noted it as well. Certainly, if people don’t mind being a release or two behind that is the simpler option. When I’m setting something up for someone else who likes *nix but isn’t tech savvy, though,

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Sorry, a bit late in answering this, and surprised that no-one else chipped in ... but in case it helps someone in the future, you can get pretty recent versions of GnuCash for Ubuntu etc in the getdeb repository. http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gnucash Saves a lot of messing around with

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Thanks Dave, I forgot about the README.dependencies file. I’ll take a look. I knew I was going to get some useful feedback from gcc and ./configure, I just didn’t know how messy it was going to be. I appreciate the tips on prefix and paths. That explains why I had trouble with a recent build

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Thanks Colin, Unfortunately, I’m giving him the system this weekend, so 18.04 is out. He’s been using Ubuntu since 10.04, Unity was enough of an adjustment and he’s been using it for 6 years. I’m not sure he’ll take to a more standard Gnome well. I was going to let him ride out Xenial till EOL

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

On 26 February 2018 at 23:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like to > put Gnucash on it. The Xenial repos are dated to 2.6.12, a bit too stale. The next LTS (18.04) will be out in a few weeks and is

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Just an additional comment Adrien, ./configure usually checks all the dependencies. First time I compiled gnucash from sources I just reran ./configure installing any packages it flagged as missing. i've just recompiled 2.6.19 on Linux Mint 18.3 (Ubuntu 16.04 derivative updated to Linux kernel

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Hi Adrien, See this page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu) from the website for installing on Ubuntu. There is also a link at the bottom of the page for building Gnucash on Ubuntu (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu) but as you observed it has the dependency list for 2.8. There

Re: Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

Adrien, I found Release 2.6.17 backported to Ubuntu 16.04 (and 17.04). in the Getdeb repo. That was good enough for me. David C On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like >

Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like to put Gnucash on it. The Xenial repos are dated to 2.6.12, a bit too stale. I’d like to put 2.6.19 on it, but the instructions on the wiki are for 2.8(3.0) and I don’t know if these are still valid for the 2.6 series.