What is earliest version of Ubuntu for which building GnuCASH 3.0 is possible?

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm newly retired and have some time ...
> I have Ubuntu 14.0.4. I'm running GnuCash 2.6.1.
> 
> But if I'm willing to build, is there any inherent reason why building
> 3.0 will fail in this environment?  If not, I'll be willing to make the
> effort.  I'd be glad for any information about bumps in the road I
> should know about in advance.
> 

We're using 14.04 for one of the CI builds, so you shouldn't have any trouble. You might want to examine 
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/unstable/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-docker
to copy the packages you need to install.

Regards,
John Ralls