Change storage format of existing data

[David T.]

Rich,

In addition to --enable-dbi, you need to install the libdbd libraries (libdbi-dbd-mysql, libdbi-dbd-postgresql and libdbi-dbd-sqlite), which John implied.

David

> On Jan 29, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3 libdbd-mysql libdbd-pgsql
> 
> John,
> 
>  Thanks for the above. Looking for a slackware solution led me to
> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Slackware#Requirements>, specifically to the
> section "Slack 14.1 + GnuCash 2.6.X" where I learned that the SlackBuild
> script requires --enable-dbi as a configuration option.
> 
>  That option is not in the default script (neither is --disable-dbi), so I
> added it, rebuilt, and reinstalled 2.6.15.
> 
>  With my existing file there's still no postgres option displayed in the
> Save as dialog.
> 
>  Are data file format options available only when a file is created and not
> retroactively?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rich
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