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[Colin Law]

On 23 September 2016 at 15:45, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm building from source, always wanted to try that.  Otherwise, I guess I
> could just use the get deb
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> I'm trying to get the dependencies, any suggestions on how to do that
> quickly.  Does the build get those or do I have to get them before make?

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building includes a section on Ubuntu,
but I don't know whether it is up to date or not.  To get all the
runtime dependencies I suggest installing the one in the Ubuntu
repository first. Then build the latest in your home directory and run
it from there.

Colin

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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 23 September 2016 at 14:24, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and need to install Gnucash.  I've
>> > been using for many years.  I'm going to try to install the latest
>> > stable
>> > version 2.6.14 but my ubuntu is using 2.6.11
>> >
>> > I noticed the getdeb package is 2.6.13 not the latest release.  How does
>> > one get that?
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>> Getdeb are usually pretty quick at updating, I expect it will happen
>> quite quickly. Unless you need one of the fixes in the latest I would
>> install from getdeb and upgrade when it appears.
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>> Otherwise you will have to build from source.
>>
>> Colin
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