Installing 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[Jon Dallara]

On 10/27/2013 08:17 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Sunday 27 October 2013 15:06:14 Colin Law wrote:
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> > On 27 October 2013 14:35, Jon Dallara <jondallara at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Thanks. I think that you might want to look at the Ubuntu apt-get
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> > > package then because apt-get was the original installation method.
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> > > I've been using the stable version installed through Software
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> > > Center (apt-get) up until now, so all the /usr entries are from the
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> > > original install of 2.4.
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> > Jon, I think maybe you misunderstand, or I do. The point is that it
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> > is not a good idea to install your own version into the same location
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> > that apt-get uses, otherwise confusion can ensue. It is best to
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> > install it to a different location, it does not matter where really.
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> > If you want to do that however it is entirely up to you, just set
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> > --prefix to wherever you want. I usually put it in a folder
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> > indicating the version number so that I can keep track of which
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> > version is which in case I have multiple versions at once, for example
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> > the current release and the development version.
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> >
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> > Colin
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> And at the same time rembember to remove all traces of your own 
> gnucash build from /usr/local (if you haven't removed your build 
> directory, you can do this with make uninstall).
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> If not, this installation in /usr/local will continue to break the 
> apt-get installed version in /usr.
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> Geert
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Thanks.  Misunderstanding on my part.  Back in my day (1999) on HP-UX we 
didn't have the different directory interactions if I recall correctly 
(/usr/local/lib overriding /usr/lib).  Anyhow, thanks for the help.  I 
may just have to get back into programming if I ever get some free time.

Jon.

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