[GNC] Building v3 - Wiki entry for Ubuntu

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 04:05:23 EDT 2018


Hi David

I have changed the text on usr/local. I haven't changed the title as it was
not immediately clear to me how to do that.  It probably doesn't matter
anyway.

Cheers

Colin

On 5 July 2018 at 11:12, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi Colin,
>
> I'm responsible for m,ost of the update  on the build Ubuntu. No problem
> for
> me with a more generic page name at all. I had stuck with the names that
> were there as I updated it with the more recent build instructions. I have
> tried to generalise the page and make it a bit more user oriented and less
> specifically developer oriented than it was originally.
>
> I have always wondered about the /usr/local/ as I also personally have a
> lot
> of home built software which installs there by default and the Ubuntu File
> System Heirarchy lists the two most common install points other than the
> users home directory as:
>
> /opt :- This directory is reserved for all the software and add-on packages
> that are not part of the default installation
>
> /usr/local :- The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system
> administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from
> being overwritten when the system software is updated.
>
> Please feel free to modfy the text as you feel fit. I did not find the FHS
> exactly illuminating.
>
> The Linux Mint and I presume Ubuntu distribution versions of GnuCash
> install
> into /usr/local. I have always installed there and as long as I don't
> install over it from the software manager, it has never been a problem for
> me. I modified that from an earlier version which primarily recommended
> installing into $HOME/.local as the preferred option. I do use that if I
> have built a version from the  github master or maint for testing so it was
> possibly more developer oriented. T times I have had 3 versions of GnuCash
> up and running
>
> David
> Cousens
>
>
>
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