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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> > just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this to 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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