Gnucash on Linux Mint

[Les]

Thanks David.

I am very familiar building an app, but when you go down that path, 
there is no upgrade, so you are sort of locked into that method.  In the 
past, I have gotten bogged down with dependencies, but like you stated, 
can be handled with apt. A long time ago, I used Gentoo.

Being lazy, I will just wait for the next getdeb update. :-)

Les


On 12/22/2017 12:45 AM, DaveC49 wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> The Linux Mint Software manager version is usually 1-2 releases behind the
> latest release of Gnucash.  getDeb is sometimes a bit more up to date.
> Unless there are specific features/fixes in the latest release that you need
> then 2.6.17 which is the current LM version should be OK.
>
> If not, it is not too hard to build on Linux Mint using the instructions at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_.28Xenial_Xerus.29.
> If you aren't familiar with cmake use the Autotools build.
>
> I usually run ..gnucash/configure setting the --prefix  option to
> /usr/local/bin rather than /opt/gnucash  or /opt/gnucash-devel until it
> reports no errors, installing any packages it reports it needs as errors
> that are not already installed. There is a list of dependencies in the
> README.dependencies files and most can be installed directly with apt before
> running the ..gnucash/configure.
>
>
>
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