Hi, Not sure what happened to the origial post, the content was all there in the copy in my Sent Mail box. Anyway, sorry for the noise - we'll try again...
Wasn't sure whether to post this on a GnuCash list or a Ubuntu one but thought I'd stand a better chance of sorting my problem out here. I've been able to check out the source for GnuCash 2.3.14 from the svn repository and build it, creating a binary that starts up without any problems. However, when I create a deb package and use that to update my GnuCash installation (from version 2.2.9-5 that comes with Ubuntu Lucid) using apt-get (or Synaptic) the process completes without any error, but the installed binaries disappear and I can no longer run GnuCash. I use the following steps to build my package, which I've cobbled together from a number of sources (mainly http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_.28Lucid_Lynx.29 + other parts of that page): mkdir -p ~/packages/unstable ~/packages/development rm -rf ~/packages/unstable/gnucash ~/packages/development/gnucash cd ~/packages/development svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash cd gnucash ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=$HOME/packages/unstable/gnucash --enable-debug --enable-doxygen --enable-error-on-warning ~ --enable-compile-warnings --enable-dbi --enable-webkit sudo checkinstall -D --default --install=no --pkgversion 2.3.14 sudo chown root:root gnucash_2.3.14-1_amd64.deb sudo mv gnucash_2.3.14-1_amd64.deb /usr/local/local-deb-packages/ sudo ~/bin/update-local-deb-packages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade gnucash These steps seem to complete without an error and produce v2.3.14 binaries in ~/packages/unstable/gnucash/bin. However, after I've upgraded using apt-get, my previously-installed v2.2.9-5 binaries have disappeared without being replaced by the newer ones. I have a moderate amount of experience with Linux and I am a Java software developer so I have some relevant skills, but I'm out of my depth here. Any tips would be welcome. Cheers, Rob Hills Waikiki, Western Australia _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
