Installation problems on Debian

[David Hampton]

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 18:03 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:

> According to the INSTALL file that came with the 2.0.0 document tarball:
> 
> "By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
> `/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc."

This is the default for almost all software packages.

> Where should the docs be located? Perhaps if I knew where GnuCash was looking 
> I could move the files to that location. I have the following:
> 
> /etc/gnucash
> /etc/gnucash/config
> /home/mark/.gnucash
> /root/.gnucash
> /usr/bin/gnucash

Since gnucash is installed with --prefix=/usr, you also need to install
the docs with --prefix=/usr.  That's it.

  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

David