building gnucash on debian

edodd at billiau.net edodd at billiau.net
Wed Jan 19 01:26:45 EST 2011


> On Wed, January 19, 2011 12:59 am, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:29 PM, John Griessen wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/18/2011 07:04 PM, John Griessen wrote:
>>>> will a migration to the newest source code build cure all?
>>>
>>> I've hit trouble with requirements on debian to build gnucash.
>>>

SNIP
>> More than likely you don't have installed libglib2.0-dev. You'll need
>> dev
>> packages for all of the dependencies.
>
> For starters:   apt-get build-dep gnucash
>
> Then you'll need to add the 2.4 additional dependencies (webkit, dbi, etc)
>

> -derek


Yes Debian has some really smart package building features
and if done the way suggested then it will be in your package management
system and be upgradeable in the future.

What have we got recorded in the wiki?



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