[GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2

[David Cousens]

Colin,
It is possible it has been compiled or is missing libdbi which
supoports the db access via the various db backends.  It has to be
included in the dependencies to get the sqlbackend to run.  I haven't
yet explored the flatpak process at all. If it hides trace and
debugging information that's not helpful. The two guys who run the
Githubflathub/org.GnuCash.GnuCash site seem to be primarily Gnome
developers rather than being involved with the GnuCash development. I
don't know if they had any contact with the main GnuCash developers
before setting it up.  I converted from LM18.3 to LM 19 iin the middle
of this and struck some initial problems with a kernel upgrade that
LM19 applied automatically. Still recovering from that one. Still
sorting out some problems with network shares as well. I've just about
got the GnuCash build setup back to normal on LM 19 but hit a hitch
with the cmake detection of swig3.0 which I'm sorting out.
David

 On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 13:56 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 28 July 2018 at 13:20, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> wrote:
> > Deva
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Linux Mint 19 is called Tara and is based on Ubuntu 18.04. 
> > 
> > Linux Mint 18.2 is called Sonya and is based on Ubuntu 16.04
> > 
> > The flatpak version is available in both from the Software manager.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The flatpak version is fine as long as you don't want any of the
> > 
> > optional GnuCashfeatures like
> > 
> >  aqbanking
> > 
> >  sql backends etc 
> > 
> > as they do not have these options included in the build. It however
> > 
> > does have any bugs recorded for GnuCash v3.2 so far.
> 
> In fact the sql backend is included in the build, because it is
> available from the Save As dialog.  However it doesn't work, for me
> at least.  In addition it does not appear to generate a trace file,
> or at least I can't find it, so it is difficult to work out what is
> going wrong.
> Colin
> 
>