gnucash in debian

[Josh Sled]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 15:36 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
> On May 20, 2006, at 1:56 PM, don Paolo Benvenuto wrote:
> > A question: does it make sense to rename the old gnucash executable to
> > gnucash1 and install the unstable package? That would permit to keep
> > using the gnome1 gnucash and testing the gnome2 one.
> >
> > Would gnucash1 keep working?
> 
> The generic answer is the two versions of gnucash can't be in the  
> same $PREFIX, and there might be problems if either version is in the  
> default location. Debian may be different, however. YMMV.

There seems to be problems with 1.8 in /usr and 1.9 in /usr/local.

Most devs seem to prefix into /opt/[something] (/opt/gnc/unstable/,
here), and that works fine with a regularly-installed 1.8 in /usr.
The gentoo ebuild has been doing the same thing: installing the 1.9.x's
into /opt/gnucash-${version}/, and that allows the 1.8 version to be
installed and run concurrently (though that'll change with the next
release).

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