[GNC] Gnucash 3 in the Debian / Ubuntu pipeline?

[Adrien Monteleone]

I know at least one uses Fedora, so they won’t be building a .deb for you. (an .rpm perhaps?)

But building a .deb package is what you’re going to find in a repository. (Debian/Ubuntu/derivative repositories are collections of .deb packages)

3.2 has not made it out of Sid because of several issues, all noted on the page: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnucash originally linked by Lincoln earlier in the thread.

That page seems to indicate 2 main issues (the others will likely auto-resolve):

1. Three Debian core supported architectures don’t have a successful GnuCash build for them: armel, mips, s390x (the last two had automated builds fail as of today even, producing segfaults when building, noted here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906609)

2. GnuCash has a dependency on guile-2.2-dev, but it seems this can’t be satisfied on armel (and why it can’t build).

Once those builds are successful, it will likely come out of Sid and move to Testing.

So, unless you’re running one of those architectures, the short term solution is build yourself. (which really isn’t difficult, especially since the instructions have just been clarified and revised on the wiki)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 22, 2018, at 12:14 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> On 08/21/2018 08:32 PM, GWB wrote:
>> Yes, thank you, I may try building from source.  Has there ever been a
>> standalone .deb package for GnuCash?  I don't know what the flatpack
>> is, but it occurs to me that for linux, debian, etc., a 3.x .deb might
>> be worthwhile.  But I don't think I have seen a .deb package on the
>> download links at GnuCash.org.
>> 
>> If not, is that intentional?  Some distros are good with
>> "automagically" finding and installing dependencies when using .deb
>> packages, and some are not.  Source may be less hassle anyway on some
>> distros.
>> 
> I'm not sure which distro the developers use.  So there may not be one
> that could create a deb package.  I'm not sure what would be involved to
> do that.
> 
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