[GNC] Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Gnucash 3.2

[Colin Law]

On 29 July 2018 at 14:53, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I think I mentioned (much) earlier that I attempted to contact the
snapper(?) to ask if he was going to update it, but there was no response.

Colin



>
> 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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