[GNC-dev] GnuCash 3 on Linux

[Chris Good]

Hi,

 

I'm working on my BackupGnuCash stand-alone app.

 

I have 2 questions today:

 

1.

I'm a little uncertain about where the saved reports and metadata files are
in GnuCash 3.0 for Linux.

I suspect they are by default:

~/.local/share/gnucash/saved-reports-2.4

~/.local/share/gnucash/books/[BOOK].gnucash.gcm

unless overridden by XDG_DATA_HOME.

 

Can some-one please confirm?

 

2.

I tried to get version 3 on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) running to test myself.

I found gnucash_3.0-1 at the Debian Archive [1] but when I tried to install
it, 

the following packages were not available:

 

guile-2.2-libs is only available for bionic (18.04LTS) -> 18.10

libaqbanking35 is available in 16.04 -> 18.10

libboost-*.62.0 only available in 17.10 -> 18.10

libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5) only available on 17.10 -> 18.10

libgwenhywfar60 (>= 3.99.16) available on 14.04 -> 18.10

libicu57 (>= 57.1- only available on 17.10

 

Looks like I should upgrade to 18.04 (I mostly only use this VM for testing
GnuCash) or is there an easy way to install the required packages without
overriding the standard packages? I guess on 16.04, I could compile the new
package versions to /usr/local?

 

Maybe I should upgrade to 18.04 then try to build from gnucash maint source?

 

I'm a little worried the Debian Archive 3.0-1 was built on a system with a
not easily reproducible mixture of package versions. I cannot find any
documentation saying what you need to run it.

 

The https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04 page mentions only
guile-2.0 not guile-2.2.

Does the current gnucash maint build OK on Ubuntu 18.04?

 

[1] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Regards, Chris Good