Flash Drive
Greg Feneis
mfeneis at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 19:06:09 EDT 2017
Very cool! I didn't know of portableapps.com, but here's the English entry
for GnuCash. Looks like it's based on the latest version too.
https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable
Kind regards,
Greg Feneis
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Christoph R <
subscriptions+listen at rohland.net> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> even if you gave up on the topic I would like to point you to:
> https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/gnucash_portable <
> https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/gnucash_portable>.
>
> I did not use it for a while but it worked for me nicely with an older
> version.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> > Am 15.07.2017 um 21:31 schrieb John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com>:
> >
> > David,
> >
> > I have pretty much given up on that idea, as you said its a very complex
> approach, and to be honest, probably not worth the time for the benefit. I
> saw the space used on the hard drive, and yes I do have enough space for
> that, so I think I will store the data on the flash drive and run the app
> from the hard drive. As you said, that's a pretty trivial thing to do and
> won't take a lot of time.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > On 07/15/2017 12:19 AM, David T. wrote:
> >> John,
> >>
> >> I seem to have misunderstood. I thought you said you were only trying
> to store the data file on the flash drive; this sounds like you are trying
> to store the entire application there.
> >>
> >> Storing the data file is trivial, but trying to load the entire
> application is another story. Since I am not a Linux guy, I will defer to
> the comments made here by the others about the difficulties of running an
> application from removable storage.
> >>
> >> Gnucash on my mac takes a total of about 175Mb of space. Surely that
> could fit in the limited space available to you? If that is still a
> stretch, you can probably delete some of the different language help files;
> the Japanese docs especially eat up a lot of space.
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:08, John Wright
> >> <minimuddler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> David,
> >>
> >> Yes, in fact I have gotten the error several times. My first
> >> attempt at running gnucash from a flash drive went this way.
> Installed it on the hard drive, then moved all the gnucash files
> >> (except libs) to flash drive, added a .desktop file to
> >> user/share/applications. That worked ok, but I couldn't find the
> >> icon, and all the lib files were still on the hard drive.
> >>
> >> The reason I want to do this is that the laptop I just purchased
> >> has a 15GB m-stat sshd. So I really don't have a lot of room to
> >> play with. Sort of a throwback to the days when everything we ran
> >> was stored on floppy drives and either a very small hard drive or
> >> no hard drive at all. Of course that was way before the internet.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07/14/2017 01:20 PM, David wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I guess it's lucky that John only wants to load his data from the
> >>> flash drive, then.
> >>>
> >>> John, be aware that GnuCash always tries to load the last file it
> >>> had open; if the folder isn't available when you fire it up, you
> >>> will receive an error. Just be sure the USB stick is inserted and
> >>> mounted before you start GC, and you should be fine.
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> >>> *From:* David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> >>> <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> >>> *Sent:* Fri Jul 14 22:00:33 GMT+05:00 2017
> >>> *To:* Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> >>> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>
> >>> *Cc:* "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, John Wright
> >>> <minimuddler at gmail.com> <mailto:minimuddler at gmail.com>
> >>> *Subject:* Re: Flash Drive
> >>>
> >>> 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
> message
> >>> > > just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this
> to the
> >>> > > list for information. Also see reply below.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > 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
> >>> > > >
> >>> > > >
> >>> > >
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> >>> > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> > >
> >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > -----
> >>> > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You
> >>> can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > > -- >
> >>> Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > Deepwoods Software -- Custom
> >>> Software Services > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux
> >>> Administration Services > heller at deepsoft.com
> >>> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com> -- Webhosting Services > >
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> >>> > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> >
> >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- >
> >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do
> >>> this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> >>> gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user -----
> >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do
> >>> this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > gnucash-user mailing list
> > gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> > -----
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
More information about the gnucash-user
mailing list