Building vs Installing GnuCash WAS: Re: Importing into stock type gnucash accounts...

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Allan <allanhasmail at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 09/29/2015 11:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>
>> Probably because the packager hasn’t gotten the 2.6.8 deb ready. But you
>> don’t need a source deb, you can just get the tarball from
>> http://www.gnucash.org and build that. Regards, John Ralls
>>
>
> But I read there are many dependencies to deal with. And I'm running Mint
> 17.,2/Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.
>
> I don't understand all that real well, but I found:
>
> http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_apps?dist=trusty
>
> Which says to run:
>
> wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key
> add -
> sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb
> apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> then:
>
> apt-get install 1:2.6.8-1~getdeb1
>
> ?
>
> I have the source too.
>
> I don't quite get what this means/what's the difference:
> "*Latest version:* 1:2.6.8-1~getdeb2~vivid"
> from:
> http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/getdeb_apps/vivid/apps/getdeb/gnucash
>

The vivid package you mention is for the current release of Ubuntu, 15.04
"Vivid Vervet" (which you are not running) so you need to stick with a
Trusty package.

However you DO NOT need to build GnuCash to install it, because getdeb has
already built it for you.

If you don't really want to build GnuCash but just want to run it on your
Mint system, go to http://getdeb.net/ and follow the directions for adding
their repository (telling it you're running Ubuntu Trusty). If you already
entered the commands you listed above, you should have already added the
repository to your system. You may need to examine the
/etc/apt/sources.list file and correct a typing error. (Or use the Software
Sources tool in your package manager to look at the getdeb line and fix it.)

After you update apt's cache, the latest version of GnuCash should be
available:

$ apt-get update

$ apt-cache showpkg gnucash

[The latter will give lots of information but the top should show the
latest version.]

$ apt-get install gnucash gnucash-common

Those are the two basic packages; three other packages should be available
IF you need them:
  gnucash-docs
  gnucash-dbg
  python-gnucash


(IF you are trying to build the source package for educational purposes,
then you need to learn how to get all the dependent source packages. You'll
find some clues by reading the GnuCash Wiki
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building and also a web search for "building
packages the Debian way" will be helpful. By contrast, it's probably more
straightforward to install the tarball, as John Ralls pointed out, unless
you're trying to learn how to deal with Debian packaging.)




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