Unable to open gnucash-2.2.9 even after compiling

Dr. Md. Aminul Islam Khan aikhan_lab at bdcom.net
Fri Mar 13 10:18:42 EDT 2009


Thank you very much. It worked.
Regards.
aikhan
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 17:15 +0000, Ian Barton wrote:
> > 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.
> 



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