Running GC from thumb drive.

[John Ralls]

On Mar 5, 2012, at 9:14 AM, karimb at comcast.net wrote:

> I've used Gnucash Portable in the past. It's Windows only, I don't know what's available for Linux or Mac OSX. 
> 
> http://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Talor" <philologos at mindspring.com> 
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 11:38:03 AM 
> Subject: Running GC from thumb drive. 
> 
> Regards to All, 
> 
> Some while back someone mentioned running GC from a thumbdrive. I understood this to mean: running it on a machine without installing but by executing from the thumbdrive. Was my understanding correct? How do you do it? 
> 

The Mac Gnucash.app runs just fine from a thumb drive. I do so often to test new releases on various machines.

Getting it to work on Linux would be a lot harder because of managing the dependencies on the various machines. If you're capable, you'd want to build Gnucash from source along with any dependencies that aren't provided on all of the machines and setting prefix somewhere to make transferring the whole tree (bin, lib, etc, share) to a thumb drive easy. You'd need to set up a launcher script to pre-set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and adjust etc/gnucash/environment to get the rest right.

Regards,
John Ralls