Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-11-19 Thread john
You do, so cd $SOURCEDIR before git checkout -b 4.8a 4.8a. You want package googletest instead of libgtest-dev and google-mock. The former includes the sources for both googletest and googlemock that GnuCash builds into static libraries for building its tests. This is the way that the googletes

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-11-19 Thread brad
Don't you need to be in $SOURCEDIR for the git commands? On 11/19/21 12:10 AM, david whiting wrote: Hi Brad, Once you have the sources you can use git to checkout any previous version you want. To see the tagged versions, in a terminal type: git tag The last 10 lines show: 4.2-post-string-f

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-11-18 Thread david whiting
Hi Brad, Once you have the sources you can use git to checkout any previous version you want. To see the tagged versions, in a terminal type: git tag The last 10 lines show: 4.2-post-string-freeze 4.3 4.3-string-freeze 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.8a gnucash-1-9-0 So, if you want version 4.8a, you ca

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-11-18 Thread brad
David,  Will your script build the latest stable release?  If not what do I change to do that? On 10/2/21 11:48 AM, david whiting wrote: Hi Jeff, On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 07:11, Jeff wrote: [...] I would settle for a copy of "Building the Newest Version of GNC for Dummies Course" book. Other

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-03 Thread Jeff
On 10/2/21 12:48 PM, david whiting wrote: Hi Jeff, On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 07:11, Jeff wrote: [...] I would settle for a copy of "Building the Newest Version of GNC for Dummies Course" book. Others have shown you that you can use flatpak to get the latest version, but if you do want to build

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-02 Thread david whiting
Create a desktop file on the desktop. To do this, open a text editor, e.g. gedit, and paste the following into a file and save it on your desktop with the name gnucash-maint.desktop (example file attached): === gnucash-maint.desktop === [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=/home/j

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-02 Thread Jeff
On 9/29/21 6:48 AM, Jon Schewe wrote: If you install from flatpak you will get the current version. However note that there is currently a bug with 4.7 that prevents it from opening, so you may want to wait on that. sudo apt install flatpak sudo flatpak install org.gnucash.GnuCash flatpak run o

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-10-02 Thread david whiting
Hi Jeff, On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 07:11, Jeff wrote: [...] > I would settle for a copy of "Building the Newest Version of GNC for > Dummies Course" book. Others have shown you that you can use flatpak to get the latest version, but if you do want to build from source I have found that the followi

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-09-29 Thread Dan Ståhlberg via gnucash-user
Version 4.8 works fine on my Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS. Thanks fixers! Dan ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 at 14:53, Geert Janssens wrote: > Version 4.8 has been published on flathub already. That version should work. > > Geert ___

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-09-29 Thread Geert Janssens
Version 4.8 has been published on flathub already. That version should work. Geert Op woensdag 29 september 2021 13:48:27 CEST schreef Jon Schewe: > If you install from flatpak you will get the current version. However > note that there is currently a bug with 4.7 that prevents it from > opening,

Re: [GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-09-29 Thread Jon Schewe
If you install from flatpak you will get the current version. However note that there is currently a bug with 4.7 that prevents it from opening, so you may want to wait on that. sudo apt install flatpak sudo flatpak install org.gnucash.GnuCash flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash On Wed, 2021-09-29 a

[GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

2021-09-28 Thread Jeff
Short of building from source, is there a link anywhere for upgrading from 4.2 to the next compatible stable version on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?  The Debian list is too far behind since I run multiple O.S.'s.  I tried the suggested PPA, I think it was sicklylife something or other for 4.3. Totally scr