Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Derek, I run PCLinuxOS, & it is Gnucash ver 4.1. I have been a happy PCLinuxOS user for about 15 years. I love PCL because it just works. Try it off a USB drive, or SD card. (I run Ubuntu on my Energy server, & must say I prefer PCL! Emoncms (that I use) is set up for Ubuntu, so too hard to change for me...) regards, Doug On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:20:49 -0400 Derek Zehr wrote: > Hello Fellow GnuCashers, > > I installed GnuCash from Ubuntu software (Ubuntu 18.04), and it is > version 2.6.19. But I see the latest release on gnucash.org is 4.1. Why > is mine so far behind, and when can I expect the upgrades to come > through Ubuntu's distribution? > > Thanks, > > Derek Zehr > > ___ > 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. -- Doug ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Derek, Before you go too far down the Mailman rabbit hole, if you have a Linux-based Web/E-mail host, they may offer a Mailman installation as an option that is as simple as giving the list a name and setting a few preferences. (Unless you really want to run your own Mailman server that is) If you have such a host, their tools section or cPanel will have an entry for 'Mailing Lists'. Regards, Adrien On 8/25/20 8:42 PM, Derek Zehr wrote: Thank you once again David. Your detailed explanations helped to fill in some of my blank spots in understanding the build process. Make had some red error lines when I rebuilt gnucash, and not knowing how to figure them out (it worked the first time I built it) I switched to ninja with very good success. GnuCash 4.1 popped right up with the file I had last used on Windows with GnuCash 4.1. Also as a side note, I have never encountered this email list system before, other than Google Groups. This one operates in much the same way, but is open source and more customizable. I loved it on the spot, and noting the Mailman logo, looked it up, and am working at setting up my own system, hoping to put Google Groups out of business (in our family at least ;-)) Much appreciated! ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version using /opt
Thank You! On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:27 PM Frank H. Ellenberger < frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 26.08.20 um 16:09 schrieb David Carlson: > > Is https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html > > referenced in the GnuCash Linux build instructions? > > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_On_Linux=revision=16695=16438 > Better? > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:27 AM Derek Zehr wrote: > > > >> Yes I did it by mistake > >> > >> On Aug 26, 2020 2:32 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: > >>> > >>> Derek, > >>> > >>> Am 25.08.20 um 18:10 schrieb Derek Zehr: > I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. > >>> > >>> That way you are leaving the FHS: > >>> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html > >>> > >>> and can get other problems, too. > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> Frank > > -- David Carlson ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version using /opt
Am 26.08.20 um 16:09 schrieb David Carlson: > Is https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html > referenced in the GnuCash Linux build instructions? https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_On_Linux=revision=16695=16438 Better? > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:27 AM Derek Zehr wrote: > >> Yes I did it by mistake >> >> On Aug 26, 2020 2:32 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: >>> >>> Derek, >>> >>> Am 25.08.20 um 18:10 schrieb Derek Zehr: I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. >>> >>> That way you are leaving the FHS: >>> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html >>> >>> and can get other problems, too. >>> >>> Regards >>> Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version using /opt
N-n-no, I didn't see it. But I meant I didn't quite follow the instructions that were there. Derek On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:09 EDT, David Carlson wrote: Is https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html referenced in the GnuCash Linux build instructions? On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:27 AM Derek Zehr wrote:Yes I did it by mistake On Aug 26, 2020 2:32 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: > > Derek, > > Am 25.08.20 um 18:10 schrieb Derek Zehr: > > I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. > > That way you are leaving the FHS: > https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html > > and can get other problems, too. > > Regards > Frank ___ 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. --David Carlson ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version using /opt
Is https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html referenced in the GnuCash Linux build instructions? On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 6:27 AM Derek Zehr wrote: > Yes I did it by mistake > > On Aug 26, 2020 2:32 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: > > > > Derek, > > > > Am 25.08.20 um 18:10 schrieb Derek Zehr: > > > I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. > > > > That way you are leaving the FHS: > > https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html > > > > and can get other problems, too. > > > > Regards > > Frank > ___ > 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. > -- David Carlson ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version using /opt
Yes I did it by mistake On Aug 26, 2020 2:32 AM, "Frank H. Ellenberger" wrote: > > Derek, > > Am 25.08.20 um 18:10 schrieb Derek Zehr: > > I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. > > That way you are leaving the FHS: > https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html > > and can get other problems, too. > > Regards > Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version using /opt
Derek, Am 25.08.20 um 18:10 schrieb Derek Zehr: > I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. That way you are leaving the FHS: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html and can get other problems, too. Regards Frank ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Thank you once again David. Your detailed explanations helped to fill in some of my blank spots in understanding the build process. Make had some red error lines when I rebuilt gnucash, and not knowing how to figure them out (it worked the first time I built it) I switched to ninja with very good success. GnuCash 4.1 popped right up with the file I had last used on Windows with GnuCash 4.1. Also as a side note, I have never encountered this email list system before, other than Google Groups. This one operates in much the same way, but is open source and more customizable. I loved it on the spot, and noting the Mailman logo, looked it up, and am working at setting up my own system, hoping to put Google Groups out of business (in our family at least ;-)) Much appreciated! Derek Zehr On 2020-08-25 6:02 p.m., David Cousens wrote: Derek, It is possible it will cause problems. When you specify the prefix the installation procedure puts the libraries and shared resources in particular locations. AFAIK it doesn't create environment variables in your system but the choice of prefix goes affect how GnuCash looks for files internally. I think if you use /opt it will expect to find the binary in /opt/bin libraries in /opt/lib shared resources in /opt/share whereas if you specicy /opt/gnucash the program will be looking in /opt/gnucash/bin /opt/gnucash/lib etc. Generally with /opt I think it is the preferred practice that the application libraries and other resources should all be in a directory under the applications name in /opt. The build/install scripts if my memory serves me used to do this automatically for installs to $HOME/.local or /opt but I havent built for /opt for several years now. The structure for installaton in /usr or /usr/local is different from an install in /opt as there are standard conventions for locations. /usr should only be used by the software that is part of the OS. /usr/local is generally intended for software that the user optionally installs from the OS repositories and in both these locations files go into general /bin, /lib, /share subdirectories and not application specific (they may however be under an application specific subdirectory of /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib for example however). You may also need to append the /opt locations to the PATH environment variable if the install script hasn't done so. I would rebuild and reinstall using the location you want to put the files into. I normally build for /usr/local as I don't use the Gnucash version from the OS repository and havent for the past 10 years. The only difficulty with using /usr/local is that you might accidentally install GnuCash from the repository over your own build. If you look in the build directory you will find a file install.manifest which will list the locations that Gnucash has been installed into. These are the locations in which the program created from that build will be expecting to find the files. It is used when you use the $ninja uninstall command to remove an installation. If files have been moved this will not be successful and you may have to remove them manually (see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Uninstall_Gnucash_Linux) but there are risks of impacting other installed software in a manual uninstall. David Cousens - 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Derek, It is possible it will cause problems. When you specify the prefix the installation procedure puts the libraries and shared resources in particular locations. AFAIK it doesn't create environment variables in your system but the choice of prefix goes affect how GnuCash looks for files internally. I think if you use /opt it will expect to find the binary in /opt/bin libraries in /opt/lib shared resources in /opt/share whereas if you specicy /opt/gnucash the program will be looking in /opt/gnucash/bin /opt/gnucash/lib etc. Generally with /opt I think it is the preferred practice that the application libraries and other resources should all be in a directory under the applications name in /opt. The build/install scripts if my memory serves me used to do this automatically for installs to $HOME/.local or /opt but I havent built for /opt for several years now. The structure for installaton in /usr or /usr/local is different from an install in /opt as there are standard conventions for locations. /usr should only be used by the software that is part of the OS. /usr/local is generally intended for software that the user optionally installs from the OS repositories and in both these locations files go into general /bin, /lib, /share subdirectories and not application specific (they may however be under an application specific subdirectory of /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib for example however). You may also need to append the /opt locations to the PATH environment variable if the install script hasn't done so. I would rebuild and reinstall using the location you want to put the files into. I normally build for /usr/local as I don't use the Gnucash version from the OS repository and havent for the past 10 years. The only difficulty with using /usr/local is that you might accidentally install GnuCash from the repository over your own build. If you look in the build directory you will find a file install.manifest which will list the locations that Gnucash has been installed into. These are the locations in which the program created from that build will be expecting to find the files. It is used when you use the $ninja uninstall command to remove an installation. If files have been moved this will not be successful and you may have to remove them manually (see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Uninstall_Gnucash_Linux) but there are risks of impacting other installed software in a manual uninstall. David Cousens - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Sorry David, my previous email didn't go to the group. Here's my problem with a little more detail. When I try to launch GnuCash I get this error: :/opt/gnucash$ ./bin/gnucash ./bin/gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory :/opt/gnucash$ ls lib/ gnucash libgnc-engine.so libgnucash-guile.so libgnc-app-utils.so libgnc-generic-import.so python3.6 libgnc-backend-sql.so libgnc-gnome.so x86_64-linux-gnu libgnc-backend-xml-utils.so libgnc-locale-tax.so libgnc-core-utils.so libgnc-module.so Can you help me figure out why it can't find the library? (I did have a bit of shuffling around. I built gnucash in /opt instead of /opt/gnucash. So I moved the folders bin, etc, share, lib, include to /opt/gnucash. Would that have made this problem??) Thanks, Derek On 2020-08-24 10:11 p.m., David Cousens wrote: Derek, Have you installed all the dependencies first https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies If so $sudo apt-get install googletest will install the googletest framework including google mock. In most cases cmake will give you the name of the library that is missing. Eg the libdbi drivers. You can build GnuCash without them if you are not using the database backends but the default build includes them and the unit tests check their operation so they are now normally included in the default build. I need to update the wiki to reflect that.. you need to do $sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev and one of the following database drivers $sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql or $sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql or $sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3. The package names given in the cmake output may differ slightly from the package names in the repository for a given distribution. Use $apt-cache search where string is a few characters from the package name will usually help in identifying the correct name on your distribution . They may have 'lib' prefixed onto the package name and may include other build information. In most cases for the build what need to be added to your system are the development header files which generally have a postfix '-dev' onto the package name. You will need the binary libraries at run time so I usually include the binaries and headers in the install command but you may find the binary libraries are often already installed by other programs/packages. apt generally reports that and just installs the headers if they aren't present. You can safely ignore the warning re Gettext 0.20 (or build it if you are feeling advenmturous). Once cmake completes without reporting any missing packages you should be ready to buiild. Ninja is becoming the preferred build utility rather than make. To use it you first install it with sudo apt-get install ninja-build and then add a "-GNinja" flag to the cmake command. the build and install commandis then $ninja and $sudo ninja install David Cousens - 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Derek, Have you installed all the dependencies first https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies If so $sudo apt-get install googletest will install the googletest framework including google mock. In most cases cmake will give you the name of the library that is missing. Eg the libdbi drivers. You can build GnuCash without them if you are not using the database backends but the default build includes them and the unit tests check their operation so they are now normally included in the default build. I need to update the wiki to reflect that.. you need to do $sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev and one of the following database drivers $sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql or $sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql or $sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3. The package names given in the cmake output may differ slightly from the package names in the repository for a given distribution. Use $apt-cache search where string is a few characters from the package name will usually help in identifying the correct name on your distribution . They may have 'lib' prefixed onto the package name and may include other build information. In most cases for the build what need to be added to your system are the development header files which generally have a postfix '-dev' onto the package name. You will need the binary libraries at run time so I usually include the binaries and headers in the install command but you may find the binary libraries are often already installed by other programs/packages. apt generally reports that and just installs the headers if they aren't present. You can safely ignore the warning re Gettext 0.20 (or build it if you are feeling advenmturous). Once cmake completes without reporting any missing packages you should be ready to buiild. Ninja is becoming the preferred build utility rather than make. To use it you first install it with sudo apt-get install ninja-build and then add a "-GNinja" flag to the cmake command. the build and install commandis then $ninja and $sudo ninja install David Cousens - 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Thanks for the info everyone. So now I'm trying to build GnuCash 4.1 on Ubuntu 18, mainly because I opened my files on GnuCash 4.1 on a Windows device. Maybe I'm getting myself into more trouble than it's worth. But I'm currently stuck at Cmake not finding Googletest. Attached is the terminal lines that show what's up, and why I think it should find Googletest. Hope someone on here has a bit of experience with this. If it weren't for the extensive documentation on GnuCash's website about how to build it on Linux, I wouldn't even be close to this far. :) Thanks, Derek On 2020-08-24 4:48 p.m., Adrien Monteleone wrote: There are considerable report improvements in 4.x and hands down, the search-as-you-type feature when entering accounts in a transaction is by far, the greatest productivity and user friendly feature I've seen in any desktop software in years. It is super fast, and narrows down your choices very quickly. No more typing through the account hierarchy with separators to assign that account which is 8 levels deep. (but you still can if you want to) Once you use it, you won't know how you managed without it. Regards, Adrien On 8/24/20 9:57 AM, Derek Zehr wrote: Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4? ___ 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. me@device:~/Applications/build-gnucash-4.1$ sudo cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt -DWITH_PYTHON=ON ../gnucash-4.1/ CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:251 (message): Gettext version 0.20 or more recent is required to translate the 'developer_name' tag in gnucash.appdata.xml. All but that tag will be translated in the generated file. -- Using guile-2.2.x -- Using guile SRFI-64 -- Using guile textual-ports CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:459 (message): Include file was not found - did you install libdbi0-dev or libdbi-dev? CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:462 (message): Library libdbi was not found CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:466 (message): No libdbi drivers found, SQL tests will fail. -- Checking for GTEST CMake Error at common/cmake_modules/GncAddTest.cmake:162 (message): GTEST not found. Please install it or set GTEST_ROOT Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:622 (gnc_gtest_configure) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/home/me/Applications/build-gnucash-4.1/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also "/home/me/Applications/build-gnucash-4.1/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log". me@device:~/Applications/build-gnucash-4.1$ printenv GTEST_ROOT /home/me/.local/src/googletest me@device:~/Applications/build-gnucash-4.1$ ls $GTEST_ROOT appveyor.yml ci CONTRIBUTING.md googletestLICENSE platformio.ini WORKSPACE BUILD.bazel CMakeLists.txt googlemock library.json mybuild README.md ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
There are considerable report improvements in 4.x and hands down, the search-as-you-type feature when entering accounts in a transaction is by far, the greatest productivity and user friendly feature I've seen in any desktop software in years. It is super fast, and narrows down your choices very quickly. No more typing through the account hierarchy with separators to assign that account which is 8 levels deep. (but you still can if you want to) Once you use it, you won't know how you managed without it. Regards, Adrien On 8/24/20 9:57 AM, Derek Zehr wrote: Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4? ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Bruce, In addition to Frank's suggestion, if you drill down through the
GnuCash website from the start point I gave you previously there are
references to Flatpak builds which is another way to backport GnuCash
release 4.1 into several flavors of Linux. That route is not for everyone,
as there are some limitations that may make that a bad choice on some
computers.
David Carlson
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 2:04 PM Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> perhaps you should start with
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gnucash
> That will give you the overview, which GnuCash version in which release
> is in universe available.
>
> In some cases -{updates|backports} got more recent version
> than .
>
> HTH
> Frank
>
> Am 24.08.20 um 19:36 schrieb Bruce Irving via gnucash-user:
> > Unfortunately, the only listing there for 3.8 is: gnucash-docs (3.8-1)
> [universe] Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking program
> > which is the documentation. I wish it was the newer version as I'm on a
> derivative of ubuntu.
> >
> > Bruce
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Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Bruce,
perhaps you should start with
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gnucash
That will give you the overview, which GnuCash version in which release
is in universe available.
In some cases -{updates|backports} got more recent version
than .
HTH
Frank
Am 24.08.20 um 19:36 schrieb Bruce Irving via gnucash-user:
> Unfortunately, the only listing there for 3.8 is: gnucash-docs (3.8-1)
> [universe] Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking program
> which is the documentation. I wish it was the newer version as I'm on a
> derivative of ubuntu.
>
> Bruce
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Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Hello, That makes sense, David and John. Thanks. According to this list Ubuntu 20 supports Gnucash 3.8 https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/allpackages?format=txt.gz Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4? Derek Unfortunately, the only listing there for 3.8 is: gnucash-docs (3.8-1) [universe] Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking program which is the documentation. I wish it was the newer version as I'm on a derivative of ubuntu. Bruce Preach the Gospel wherever you go. If necessary, use words. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Check out this page and references therein for most details: https://gnucash.org/new_features-4.0.phtml There are probably a few minor differences overlooked. On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:59 AM Derek Zehr wrote: > > Hello, > > That makes sense, David and John. Thanks. According to this list Ubuntu 20 > supports Gnucash 3.8 > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/allpackages?format=txt.gz > > Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4? > > Derek > > On Monday, August 24, 2020 06:12 EDT, "David Cousens" < > davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Derek, > > The choices on what versions are supplied wiith a given OS version are > made > by the maintainers of the OS distribution. They usually use the current > GnuCash version (but not always) at the time of release of a new OS > version. > If you want to stay up to date with GnuCash, the main options are to use > the > flatpak or snap versions of GnuCash where available or to build the latest > version of GnuCash from the sources as described in the wiki > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux. Once build environment > and > the dependencies are installed the process is generally fairly simple. > Also > check the developer mailing list for any problems with building the most > recent version. MySQL8 proved problematical in building GC 4.0/4.1 > recently > on Linux Mint 20 (ubuntu 20.04 based) which was fixed by downgrading a > mysqlclient library that GnuCash depends on as described in the dev > mailing > list. > > David Cousens. > > > > - > 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. > > > > ___ > 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. > -- David Carlson ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Hello, That makes sense, David and John. Thanks. According to this list Ubuntu 20 supports Gnucash 3.8 https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/allpackages?format=txt.gz Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4? Derek On Monday, August 24, 2020 06:12 EDT, "David Cousens" wrote: Derek, The choices on what versions are supplied wiith a given OS version are made by the maintainers of the OS distribution. They usually use the current GnuCash version (but not always) at the time of release of a new OS version. If you want to stay up to date with GnuCash, the main options are to use the flatpak or snap versions of GnuCash where available or to build the latest version of GnuCash from the sources as described in the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux. Once build environment and the dependencies are installed the process is generally fairly simple. Also check the developer mailing list for any problems with building the most recent version. MySQL8 proved problematical in building GC 4.0/4.1 recently on Linux Mint 20 (ubuntu 20.04 based) which was fixed by downgrading a mysqlclient library that GnuCash depends on as described in the dev mailing list. David Cousens. - 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Derek, The choices on what versions are supplied wiith a given OS version are made by the maintainers of the OS distribution. They usually use the current GnuCash version (but not always) at the time of release of a new OS version. If you want to stay up to date with GnuCash, the main options are to use the flatpak or snap versions of GnuCash where available or to build the latest version of GnuCash from the sources as described in the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux. Once build environment and the dependencies are installed the process is generally fairly simple. Also check the developer mailing list for any problems with building the most recent version. MySQL8 proved problematical in building GC 4.0/4.1 recently on Linux Mint 20 (ubuntu 20.04 based) which was fixed by downgrading a mysqlclient library that GnuCash depends on as described in the dev mailing list. David Cousens. - 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Derek, as I understand them the Ubuntu & Debian (which I use) distros are more conservative and tend towards safety rather than speed of releases. So the versions they carry are well behind the bleeding edge, because they wait for more thorough testing for stability. That helps less techie/geeky people like me to have more confidence with the software I use. I have just finished upgrading to Debian Buster so I will soon upgrade GnuCash from 2.6.15 to 3.x before I go to 4.x. HTH Regards, John Angelico Melbourne Aust On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 10:09, Derek Zehr wrote: > Hello Fellow GnuCashers, > > I installed GnuCash from Ubuntu software (Ubuntu 18.04), and it is > version 2.6.19. But I see the latest release on gnucash.org is 4.1. Why > is mine so far behind, and when can I expect the upgrades to come > through Ubuntu's distribution? > > Thanks, > > Derek Zehr > > ___ > 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. > -- Best regards John A ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
GnuCash Release 2.6.19 is the last pre-packaged update that will be available for Ubuntu release 18.04 because of changes in Ubuntu long term releases. You will need to update your Ubuntu to 19.04 disco or, better, 20.04.1 LTS focal to benefit from the current pre-packaged release of GnuCash. There is more info at https://gnucash.org/download.phtml#distribution. Actually, most of the GnuCash releases in the 3.x family in particular had some regressions that some users did not like, and Ubuntu releases after 18.04 will not run well on some older PC's, so there are still a lot of GnuCash users staying with the 2.6.19 or 2.6.21 releases. David Carlson On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:08 PM Derek Zehr wrote: > Hello Fellow GnuCashers, > > I installed GnuCash from Ubuntu software (Ubuntu 18.04), and it is > version 2.6.19. But I see the latest release on gnucash.org is 4.1. Why > is mine so far behind, and when can I expect the upgrades to come > through Ubuntu's distribution? > > Thanks, > > Derek Zehr > > ___ > 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. > -- David Carlson ___ 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.
[GNC] Ubuntu distribution version
Hello Fellow GnuCashers, I installed GnuCash from Ubuntu software (Ubuntu 18.04), and it is version 2.6.19. But I see the latest release on gnucash.org is 4.1. Why is mine so far behind, and when can I expect the upgrades to come through Ubuntu's distribution? Thanks, Derek Zehr ___ 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.
