[GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2

Les lelliott5 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 09:53:51 EDT 2018


I don't think there is a 3.2 version of GC in Snap. I think the latest 
is 2.6.21. I am using it on my LM 18.2 production system.

Les


On 07/29/2018 07:53 AM, David Cousens wrote:
> Colin,I now suspect it is possibly totally flatpak related. I have just
> got my build environment setup after swapping over to Linux Mint 19
> Tara  and a fresh build of V3.2  with all options enabled is giving me
> all the database save options. I don't have mysql back up yet but it
> saved the file as an sqlite3 file with no problems. My guess and it is
> only that is there are modules associated with the flatpak system which
> perhaps interface with the OS that may be missing. I had problems
> seeing USB sticks and network shares form the flatpak, but these have
> disappeared with a native build on LM19. I'd stick with your own build
> and forget the flatpak at least for the moment. I can't see any
> optional modules in the LM19 Software manager but I found a few
> references on other forums to having to load additional support for
> some interactions with the OS. I hear snap is a better system but have
> no experience with it. there is a version on the snapcraft site. Might
> have a look once my OS is sorted out and functioning
> David
> On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 09:04 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 28 July 2018 at 23:11, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> David,
>>
>> I see MySQL as an option in Save As so I assumed that meant that it
>> had been compiled with libdbi enabled.  I am able to save to mysql
>> using a self-compiled 3.2 version of GnuCash so that suggests to me
>> that the run time system dependencies are there.  Can you suggest
>> what the problem might be?  As you say it is a pain that it seems
>> that a trace file is not generated (I did a full disk search for the
>> trace file and could not find it) as it is very difficult to know
>> what is going on.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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