Unable to open gnucash-2.2.9 even after compiling

[Ian Barton]

> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/usr/local/share/gnucash/doc" || /bin/mkdir -p
> "/usr/local/share/gnucash/doc"
> /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/share/gnucash':
> Permission denied
Did you run make install as root e.g. sudo make install. If you didn't 
it won't be able to install the binaries and doc files.

I would also suggest that you look at checkinstall (sudo apt-get 
checkinstall). This builds Debian packages and makes recovering from 
errors much easier.

Using checkinstall you would do something like:

./configure
make
su root
checkinstall

This will install gnucash as a debian package. Checkinstall tells you 
what the package is called when it installs it. Removing it is then just 
  a matter of sudo apt-get remove package-name.

Don't forget to fill in  aversion string when asked. It doesn't matter 
what you put, but checkinstall doesn't like it to be blank.

Ian.