Flash Drive
John Wright
minimuddler at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 07:31:22 EDT 2017
Thanks Christoph.
John
On 07/17/2017 01:42 AM, Christoph R 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.
>
> 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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> *From:* David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>>
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>>>> *Sent:* Fri Jul 14 22:00:33 GMT+05:00 2017
>>>> *To:* Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com
>>>> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>>
>>>> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>
>>>> *Cc:* "gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>"
>>>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>>
>>>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, John Wright
>>>> <minimuddler at gmail.com <mailto: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>>
>>>> <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>>
>>>> <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>> <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>> <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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