Inspecting my Ubuntu 19.10 system I see that a number of applications have installed themselves to ~/.local/bin. Platformio for example. Also that folder is in the PATH, but whether it is there on a clean install I don't know.
Colin On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 22:20, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Geert > > I had a short discussion about where to install for local use with John when > I started updating the wiki a couple of years ago. At that time the user > gnucash data files weren't in $HOME/.local/share/gnucash so there was no > possible conflict at that time. > > The $HOME/.local/bin was added to PATH in my default user .profile supplied > in Linux Mint which is executed by the command interpreter in login shells. > It also adds $HOME/bin to the PATH and includes .bashrc if it exists., so it > is a distro dependent addition and we can't assume it will have been added > in all distributions. > .profile <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t375329/.profile> > > > If $HOME/.local/bin or $HOME/bin is in the PATH and has a soft link in > either location to the executable then just typing gnucash at the prompt in > a terminal will start it (AFAIK as long as there isn't another link earlier > in the PATH variable which gets activated first). My own practice is to > create aliases which address the specific executable and locations when I > have multiple versions installed or if the use is likely to be longer term > create launchers for the specific version in the LM menu. > > > That will depend a bit on the history behind the choice for $HOME/.local > > in > > the first place. > > That was the main reason why I raised it here after Frank pointed it out in > a comment on my reply to a user in the user forum. It may be the user data > files can coexist happily in $HOME/.local/share along with the program data > files as it is a single user installation. > > I built and installed 3.8 to $HOME/.local yesterday to check it out. make > uninstall seems to have removed the files placed in > $HOME/.local/share/gnucash in the install without affecting the user data > files in the same location, but just leaves the trail of empty directories > the files were in.The risk is in a user doing a manual uninstall of the > program and accidentally deleting the user data files with custom reports, > checks books etc. > > > David Cousens > > > David > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > 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
