2.6.3 from GetDeb crashing on Ubuntu 14.04
Ronal Morse
ron at morsehouse.com
Thu May 1 17:25:17 EDT 2014
On 05/01/2014 12:46 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Ronal Morse <ron at morsehouse.com
> <mailto:ron at morsehouse.com>> wrote:
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>
> On 05/01/2014 09:35 AM, Colin Law wrote:
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>
> Personally I think it is easier just to build from source
> yourself.
>
> Colin
>
>
> Normally, Colin, I'd agree with you, but this particular box isn't
> set up with all the build tools required to do that, and I'd wager
> most of the Ubuntu users on this list aren't set up to do builds
> from source, either. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be, and I'm
> going to fix this one as soon as I get the round tuit, but in the
> meantime I'm hopeful about just pulling over the two files from
> the Utopic repository will address the problem at hand.
>
> RBM
>
>
> At this moment Utopic and Trusty are largely similar, so using its
> packages may work for now. HOWEVER I believe the risk is when any of
> the libraries GnuCash depends upon get updated in Utopic, the compiled
> package may then no longer work in Trusty, or it may fail in an
> unpredictable way.
>
> JamesTk suggested (a few messages earlier in this discussion) that
> Ubuntu provides a process for updating buggy packages, The only
> process I know of is Backports. See this article about repositories:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
>
> and this article about backports:
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> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
>
> The end of that second article links to the backport procedure. Anyone
> can request a package be backported. Note, however, that the requester
> should follow the package's progress through the backport process and
> that person and some others must test it, or it won't get approved.
>
> Once the package gets into the backports repository, all someone need
> do to install it is activate the backports repository on their machine
> and that version will appear as an update in update-manager.
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Yes, that certainly could be a problem in the future. I probably should
not have mentioned in my original post the part about unmet
dependencies. Or, better yet, should have warned that if one sees a
call out for an unmet dependency to stop and not proceed further because
of the potential for introducing incompatibilities with other applications.
I think I gave Colin a bit of a short shrift earlier today. It seems the
"build-dep" command works well for bringing in all the packages required
to build Gnucash from source on Trusty (14.4). That, coupled with the
concerns you raise, makes it a better way to get relief and brings a
solution to the table in less time than waiting for the backports
process to...ah...process. Or, is that backport?
RBM
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