Building 2.6.19 on Ubuntu Xenial

[David Carlson]

Adrien,

I found Release 2.6.17 backported to Ubuntu 16.04 (and 17.04). in the
Getdeb repo.  That was good enough for me.

David C

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m setting up an Ubuntu Xenial machine for a family member and I’d like
> to put Gnucash on it. The Xenial repos are dated to 2.6.12, a bit too stale.
>
> I’d like to put 2.6.19 on it, but the instructions on the wiki are for
> 2.8(3.0) and I don’t know if these are still valid for the 2.6 series.
>
> Will that procedure also work for 2.6.19? (and which is better to use
> Autotools or CMake?) I won’t be using the build tools for anything else,
> save maybe an update to 3.0 when it is released. (or more likely not until
> 3.1 or so) I’d like to set him up with an sqlite backend if that makes a
> difference. (I see a note on the wiki about Autotools being for the XML
> backend)
>
> Should I use the Trusty instructions instead?
>
> The last time I built a stable version was Precise, anything I built
> recently was the 2.7 branch.
>
> Or is there a better way to obtain the most up-to-date version for Xenial?
> (GetDeb only has 2.6.17 as of today)
>
> Thanks for any tips and advice.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
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