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 is usually a README.dependencies in the source code which will give you the library versions needed for 2.6.19 and th optional dependencies for sqlite. The gcc compiler will generally tell you if any packages are missing. The versions are generally >= the specified version but going to next major releases can be problematical in some cases (gtk a case in point as 2.6 is GTK2 based and 2.8 is GTK3 based). I usually use the autotools as I am more familiar with that, but did use CMake to build 2.6.18 without any problems. Main thing to remember is to specify the prefix to either make or CMake for the installation directory. I think the default for prefix for ./configure is /usr/local/bin/gnucash ( this is where ubuntu places the version available within their distribution - only disadvantage is that the distro version would intsall over the top of it) and you will need to use sudo make install to install it for all users in that location. (/opt/gnucash is often used for installation if you have a development version running in addition to a production/distro version - note both will use same .gnucash in your home directory which might cause some minor problems). I'm starting to use Virtual Machines for building and development to avoid conflicts and confusion between library requirements for different packages i.e. I am setting up a VM for 2.6 builds and another for 2.8 builds as well as for other applications I play with. Early days and I'm still sorting out networking between the VMs and my host to simplify file transfers. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.