Compile Guncash

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Plutocrat <plutocrat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tommy Trussell wrote on Wednesday, 08 April, 2015 10:50 AM:
>
>> Apt reported "The following packages have been kept back" and it listed
>> gnucash gnucash-common
>>
>> This meant there was a software dependency that couldn't be satisfied with
>> a regular apt-get upgrade.
>>
>
> I think the problem might be with gnucash-docs. I seem to recall in the
> Ubuntu package, you just have to do 'apt-get install gnucash' and it
> automatically installs gnucash-common and gnucash-docs. However the getdeb
> repository doesn't have this dependency, and will only install
> gnucash-common along with gnucash. I found this out when I couldn't access
> the docs, and had to install them with a separate command.
>
> Maybe I'll add a section about getdeb to the wiki when I have a moment. :-)


I'm not where I can look at the moment but if the GetDeb people made the
dependencies different, it's probably because the gnucash-docs package is
MUCH MUCH larger than the other packages and the GetDeb server is really
slow serving it. Someone has to pay their bandwidth bills after all.

BY THE WAY anyone who benefits by using GetDeb might reasonably consider
dropping a few euros (or dollars or shekels or whatever) in each time they
download a package to defray their expenses: http://www.getdeb.net/sponsors/