not backup but using gnucash in two different distros

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:55:46PM -0800, Harold wrote:
> In several of the forums for the different distros it was stated that there could be problems with different distros sharing the same home partition. I have different /home directories set up in the same partition. Being fairly new to Linux I haven't gotten a good understanding of links so therefore I don't use them. I do remember in Windows Excel that links could create problems that you might not want. Probably not the same thing but I tend to use what I know and am comfortable with my understanding of it.
> 
> Thanks for the information and advice. Another post had suggested that I save my Gnucash file to a USB flash drive and use that no matter what disto I happen to be using. That is what I plan to do. 
> 
> Thanks again,
> Harold
> 
> --- On Thu, 11/27/08, Michael DeBusk <michael at nlphilia.com> wrote:
> From: Michael DeBusk <michael at nlphilia.com>
> Subject: Re: not backup but using gnucash in two different distros
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 6:45 PM
> 
> On Thu, November 27, 2008 18:02, Harold wrote:
> 
> > Here is what I would like to do.
> > Work in Mepis and Gnucash 2.2.6. then later if I am in Mint (with
> > Gnucash 2.2.4) and want to work in Gnucash, what do I need to do
> > to make sure that the Gnucash in Mint is the exact same as what
> > I left in Mepis.
> 
> I would use the same home directory for all distros unless there's some
> really good reason not to do so.

I have an NFS-mounted file system that contains the gnucash file.

When my distros started a split between 2.0 and 2.2, I picked one of 
them to run gnucash on and I ssh -X to it to run gnucash.

-- hendrik

> 
> If I couldn't or wouldn't do that, I'd create a partition that all
> distros
> can share and a create a symbolic link to it in each home directory.
> 
> 
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