moving to sql backend

Carpetnailz carpetnailz at researchintegration.org
Tue Sep 3 09:40:05 EDT 2013


Will do.
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 15:18 +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Monday 02 September 2013 19:23:42 Carpetnailz wrote:
> 
> > > > > 
> > > > > You need a program to bridge between Gnucash and your database
> > > > > backend, MySql.
> > > > > 
> > > > > In Debian you would install libdbd-mysql.
> > > > > You might find it is libdbi-mysql in Fedora - that is a previous
> > > > > name
> > > > > for the library.
> > > > 
> > > > Yum tells me, "No package available" for both libdbi-mysql and
> > > > libdbd-mysql.
> > > 
> > > It does appear in Add/Remove Software, tho. I'll see where that
> > > takes
> > > me.
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > That seems to have done it.
> > 
> > It seems to me it would be good to have that info in the Help and in
> > the Tutorial Documents--or, if the details vary too much from distro
> > to distro, at least some general indication of what's needed.
> > 
> That is a reasonable suggestion.
> 
> I'd like to encourage you to go a little further and propose a spot in 
> the help or tutorial where this information would best be added. And if 
> you feel like going a little beyond that still, you could do all of us a 
> great favour and write an initial draft of text to be included :)
> 
> I haven't had time to look into the documentation, but I did add a small 
> remark in our wiki:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies#Libraries.2FDeps
> 
> At least that's a start...
> 
> Geert
> 




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