MySQL not in the dropdown for new Accounts

[Derek Atkins]

David Zelinsky <dzpost at dedekind.net> writes:

> Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> On 11 March 2013 10:23, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 11 March 2013 11:05, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 11 March 2013 09:16, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> > I was to save the data in MySQL however the dropdown only allows me to
>>>> > select "XML".
> <snip>
>>> I'm running the latest Ubuntu 12.10
>>> I installed via
>>> apt-get install gnucash
>>
>> Try
>>
>> sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql
>
> I also ran into this, on a Debian (wheezy) system.  I could not find
> anything in the Gnucash documentation or elsewhere that mentioned the
> need for this library, until I finally found this gnucash-user thread.
> The Debian gnucash package does not require the library, but only
> "suggests" it (or libdbd-pgsql or libdbd-sqlite3).
>
> I think this is a serious failing in documentation.  I'd like to file a
> bug report, but I'm not sure where.  Seems like it should at least be
> mentioned somewhere in the gnucash documentation.
>
> Any suggestions?

If you must, file a bug with Debian.  This is not a GnuCash bug that
Debian doesn't install the optional library.

> -David

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-derek

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