gnucash-docs maint: [SQL Backends] Clarify footnote about required additional packages.

John Ralls jralls at code.gnucash.org
Mon May 30 15:23:38 EDT 2022


Updated	 via  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/commit/b96e4952 (commit)
	from  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/commit/dc208d56 (commit)



commit b96e49521ca8068b7fa7e819bfe3ac54694b0ddb
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date:   Mon May 30 12:23:23 2022 -0700

    [SQL Backends] Clarify footnote about required additional packages.

diff --git a/guide/C/ch_basics.xml b/guide/C/ch_basics.xml
index 20be4dac..13890e00 100644
--- a/guide/C/ch_basics.xml
+++ b/guide/C/ch_basics.xml
@@ -994,13 +994,10 @@ Translators:
               <entry align="center" namest="c3sqlite" nameend="c5pgsql">
                 Depends on packaging
                 <footnote>
-                  <para>SQLite relies on an additional package and driver (called libdbi and libdbd-sqlite3, respectively),
-                    which are installed by default on &mac; and &win;. &lin; users may need to
-                    manually install these for SQLite.
-                  </para>
-
-                  <para>MySQL and PostgreSQL may require the installation of additional software drivers (libdbd-mysql and
-                    libdbd-pgsql).
+                  <para>The SQL backends rely on additional packages. These are included in the macOS and Microsoft Windows
+                  application bundles and installed automatically by GnuCash's flatpak installer. Linux distribution users may need
+                  to explicitly install the one they want with their package manager. Look for a package named something like
+                  libdbd-sqlite3, libdbd-mysql, or libdbd-pgsql for SQLite3, MySql, and Postgresql respectively.
                   </para>
                 </footnote>
               </entry>



Summary of changes:
 guide/C/ch_basics.xml | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)



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