[GNC] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

[Ronal B Morse]

FWIW, Fedora 28 installs Gnucash from repository into /usr/share.

Thanks to everyone for all the hard work that goes into making Gnucash 
what it is.

RBM


On 07/04/2018 08:37 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> The wiki entry for building v3 on Ubuntu [1] has get me up and running
> with little difficulty so many thanks who contributed to writing it.
>
> There is an error there, though, I think.  The section on
> install-target says for /usr/local:
>
> /usr/local - this location is commonly used for versions distributed
> with linux distributions and is the default option. If installed here
> the program will be available to all users on the system. If you use
> this folder, use it with caution as installing from the distribution
> will overwrite your build and vice versa.
>
> I do not believe that is correct.  The distribution will not generally
> install into /usr/local and in fact, at least on Ubuntu, this is a
> common place to put home built stuff.  Applications installed there
> will not get overwritten by applications installed using apt-get.
>
> Shall I go ahead and change that?
>
> Also I think the title could be improved to indicate that it is for
> anything after Ubuntu 16.04. I know it says that in the text but the
> title is confusing I think.
>
> Colin
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04
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