[GNC] Flatpack GnuCash v3.2 available in Linux Mint and flathub website

[Colin Law]

Thanks for the suggestion, but 3.2 built from source works fine on the same
machine.

Colin

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, 06:02 Plutocrat, <plutocrat at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Flatpack GnuCash v3.2 available in Linux Mint and
> flathub website
> > From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:04:10 +0100
> > It would be really good if the flatpak worked, but for me (on Ubuntu
> 18.04)
> > I cannot save as mysql or open an existing mysql database (though it has
> > the mysql option).  I can't find the gnucash.trace file when running as a
> > flatpak (I have searched the whole disc).
>
> I'm guessing the database driver is missing: libdbd-mysql
>
> Not sure if it would help installing this within the host operating
> system. Not entirely sure how that flatpak stuff works. But I suspect you
> might have to somehow inject it into the flatpack container.
>
> Some information to throw into the mix. I tried installing the 3.2
> Flatpack version on an Ubuntu Mate laptop, which had previously run a 2.6
> gnucash before having the OS reinstalled (but the home directory was
> untouched). Everything seems to work, but it threw out these messages. This
> may or may not be useful info.
>
> ----------------
> flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
> ldconfig: /app/lib/libguile-2.2.so.1.3.0-gdb.scm is not an ELF file - it
> has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
> Gtk-Message: 19:16:03.164: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
>
> Notice
> Your gnucash metadata has been migrated .
> Old location: /home/slave/.gnucash
> New location: /home/slave/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
> If you no longer intend to run GnuCash 2.6.x or older on this system you
> can safely remove the old directory.
>
> Gtk-Message: 19:16:25.573: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent.
> This is discouraged.
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