Flash Drive

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Colin,
> >
> > Sorry for the confusion.  I what to just run gnucash from the flash drive.
> > Fedora will be installed on the pc and gnucash as well as all the gnucash
> > data will be on the flash drive.
> 
> To be pedantic you don't want to run gnucash from the flash drive, you
> want to run gnucash from the HDD and write and read the accounts file
> to the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not
> care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports to be
> on the drive there may be a little more work.

Most (all?) sensibly setup and configured Linux systems will refuse to *run* 
programs on removable media, since that is a massive security risk.

Also, gnucash is generally dynamicaly linked and depends on various [shared]
libraries that would need to be installed in system places (eg /usr/lib[64]/)
from various dependent packages. So it is unlikely that putting *just* the
gnucash exe file on the flash drive will work. Gnucash itself expects to find
stuff in /usr/share/gnucash, which won't be on the flash drive. And also has
its own pile of .so files in /usr/lib[64]/ that it will need to access.  And 
it is likely that gnucash built for, say Ubuntu, may not run *as is* under 
fedora, becase of different library versions (and whatnot).  You really need 
to just install the fedora build of gnucash on the fedora (there most likely 
is a gnucash-<mumble>.rpm out there somewhere, probably in the fedora 
repository, so a 'sudo yum install gnucash' will do everything needful.)

But otherwise, having the *data* files on the thumb drive is a perfectly 
sensible thing to do.  And is possible fairly secure as well.

> 
> Colin
> 
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >>
> >> On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac <ov10fac at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive using fedora?
> >>
> >> Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data file? If
> >> you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash installed in
> >> fedora on the PC then that is no problem. If you want to install the
> >> program itself onto the flashdrive, with Fedora on the PC, then that
> >> is more problematic. Or do you mean you want to run Fedora itself and
> >> gnucash from the flash drive?
> >>
> >> Colin
> >
> >
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