Compiling GnuCash 2.2.9 on Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric)?

[John Ralls]

On Nov 8, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Since I am struggling with posting invoices under 2.4.7 on Ubuntu
> 11.10, I thought I'd just compile 2.2.9 in the hopes of figuring out
> whether there's something seriously wrong with my file, or whether
> there's something between the versions, or what.
> 
> I managed to install all the dependencies to get configure to work,
> but during compilation I get a failure because
> goffice/graph/gog-style.h is missing.  Old instructions for old
> versions of Ubuntu say that you should use libgoffice-0-dev instead of
> libgoffice-0.8-dev.
> 
> Unfortunately, it does not appear this is an alternative under 11.10,
> and searching for the regex gog-style.h in the Ubuntu 11.10 packages
> turns up nothing.  I do have the -dev package installed, and there's a
> header for gog-styled-object.h, but that's it.  
> 
> Googling this for some time has not yielded any clues about what I can
> do to make this go.  Any hints?
> 
> (I'm aware that the goal would be to upgrade to gnucash 2.4.x, but I'm
> trying to get an invoice posted and out before I have to go away later
> this week.  It's also my business end of year, and I have a bunch of
> reports to get out and off to the accountant.  Consequently, it's
> rather urgent that I get this working.  If I'm unable to compile this,
> I'll just install a vm and put the older Ubuntu release on it and be
> done with it.  But I'm trying to do something less awful than that
> first.)


Well, if you're up for building Gnucash from source, you should be able to build whatever version of libgoffice from source as well. Tarballs are at ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/goffice, git repo is git.gnome.org/goffice.

Regards,
John Ralls