Can Not Install Version 2.2.6

[Russell Gadd]

Hello Ted

I created the bit in the wiki "Alternatively build a different version of
Gnucash directly from source" and would be pleased to augment these
instructions to deal with launching the app with a bit of help from you
please. When I installed my version I didn't use the opt directory but was
told about it later, so I didn't have the experience of trying to run it
from there. It seems that one advantage of installing it in the default
usr/local is that Gnucash magically appears in the Gnome menus (for me this
was after a reboot), but unfortunately Gnome is not clever enough to look in
opt.

My idea would be to create a "launcher" on the Gnome desktop (right click
the desktop for the menu option to create a launcher) to run gnucash from
/opt/gnucash-2.2.6/bin so that you end up with an icon to run it from. If
you want to try this, let me know if this is successful, and if there are
any special points to watch. I can then add this bit to the wiki - or maybe
you'd like to do it yourself. (You will gather that I'm a relative novice at
these things but maybe we can help each other to make a small contribution
to the Debian community)

Russell

2008/8/15 Edward Baker <skatewv at yahoo.com>

> Gentlemen,
>
> Thank you for your interest and very quick response.  After posting my
> earlier message I found a very detailed set of instructions at
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian.  I followed the instructions which
> follow the header Alternatively build a different version of Gnucash
> directly from source.  The package appeares to have been successfully
> installed.
>
> My next challenge was how to launch the application.  Using the file
> browser I located the files under the following
> path:  /opt/gnucash-2.2.6.  I tried launching the application by using
> gnucash-bin but I get an error message after the splash screen for
> gnucash is displayed.  Interestingly I can launch the application if I
> use gnucash which is a shell script (it also launches a terminal window
> which I just ignore).  Both of these files are located
> in /opt/gnucash-2.2.6/bin.
>
> Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
>
> r/
>
> Ted Baker
>