Flash Drive

John Wright minimuddler at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 16:10:10 EDT 2017


I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive 
and installing gnucash on that.  I could also install all my other apps 
as well and not use my hard drive at all.  Talk about a throw back to 
the dark ages.

John


On 07/14/2017 12:00 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing 
> Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent 
> storage.  That is based on Debian Linux.  It worked, but it was 
> somewhat clumsy.  The nice thing is that all the data is completely 
> encrypted and insulated from intruders, "sandboxed" if you will.
>
> David C
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com 
> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>> wrote:
>
>     At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com
>     <mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >
>     > On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the
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>     >
>     > On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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