Can you point me at that recommendation? I don't remember it and all Google is finding for me is https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-May/076971.html where I use $HOME/.local as an e.g.
Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 5, 2020, at 12:53 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > I just now read your original reply on the user list. > > So the recommendation comes from John. We'll have to wait for his answer to > see where he got it from then. > > In addition you suggest there the installation process adds $HOME/.local/bin > to the PATH. I don't think it does. There is nothing in the build scripts > that > would suggest otherwise. > So it must be either something your distro does for you or something you may > have done yourself in the past. > > For the record on Fedora this is not added to the path by default. It's not > in > mine. > > Regards, > > Geert > > Op donderdag 5 maart 2020 09:43:44 CET schreef Geert Janssens: >> David, >> >> I'm interested where you got the recommendation to install into $HOME/.local >> from ? Perhaps this is a practice used by some distros in specific ? >> Op donderdag 5 maart 2020 02:47:36 CET schreef David Cousens: >>> If I create a directory .apps under $HOME then GnuCash installs to it >>> without any problem but no link from $HOME/.local/bin to the executable in >>> $HOME/.apps is created by the installation and the user would have to >>> create this this manually. Once this is done GnuCash seems to run fine >>> from $HOME/.apps as a single user app. >> >> How do you start gnucash when installed in $HOME/.local/bin ? >> What's different with doing so from $HOME/.apps ? >> >>> The question is do we need to change the recommendation for installing >>> under $HOME/.local on the wiki and what should we change it to? If it is >>> agreed this is necessary I will modify the wiki to suit. >> >> That will depend a bit on the history behind the choice for $HOME/.local in >> the first place. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geert >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
