[GNC] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 06/29/2018 11:45 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> It seems that GC is a very popular accounting program, and
> Ubuntu/Linux is a very popular Operating System, yet when there is an
> upgrade in GC, I cannot find a straightforward method of updating GC
> under Ubuntu/Linux.
>
> I understand that there is a delay before the new version of GC is in
> the Ubuntu Software download system.  That is internal to Ubuntu.  But
> there are alternatives, such as an alternative repository and self
> compiling.  Oh yes, what about pre-compiled binaries like Windows and
> Mac?
>
> Each could have clear concise instructions on how to perform the task.
>
> One could direct the user with specific commands to go th the
> repository that gets the upgrade first.
>
> A script could be written and published with copious comments, testing
> for dependencies, loading them, doing a security check of the
> downloaded files, compiling and testing.
>
> Google has not turned out to be my friend, otherwise I would not be
> writing this.  There are articles years old, no install scripts, no
> suggestions of repositories with instructions.
>
> Feel free to prove me wrong, I have spent a couple of hours searching
> with many selected key words,
>
> John
>
Having just done a download and compile to my Ubuntu 18.04, let me share
with you what I did.  Sometimes reading the web sites leaves one (at
least me) scratching their head vigorously -- in my case not a good idea
with the hair I have left!

1.  Read this page:  https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04
     It works for 18.04 also.

    You didn't say which version of Ubuntu so I am presuming either
16.04 or 18.04
    You may need to install a bunch of libraries.  I found that a couple
or more were already on my box.

    My box had some old libraries hanging around that I had to manually
remove in /usr/src:
    sudo rm -rf /usr/src/gtest /usr/src/gmock

    See this note: 
https://larry-price.com/blog/2013/10/13/installing-gtest-and-gmock-libs-in-ubuntu-13-dot-04/
    But don't worry.  Just remove the above two entries (if they exist)
and the install of googletest and googlemock will work.
    I ended up uninstalling the two packages on my way to figuring out
what had happened. sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install libtool libltdl-dev
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0 libglib2.0-dev   #glib2 > v2.40.0
sudo apt-get install icu-devtools libicu-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev            # boost > 1.50.0 - requires locale and regex built with ICU support
sudo apt-get install guile-2.0 guile-2.0-dev     # guile >=2.0.0
sudo apt-get install swig3.0                     # swig >2.0.10 *(swig3.0 on Ubuntu18.04)* not required if building from
tarball,
 
sudo apt-get install googletest
sudo apt-get install googlemock
sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev
                                                # but from any version control system
sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml++2.6-dev
sudo apt-get install libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev
sudo apt-get install xsltproc
sudo apt-get install texinfo                     # required for makeinfo


sudo apt-get install gtk+3.0
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37        # > webkit2gtk-3.0
sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
 
sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev         # > v0.8.3

# one of the following three if you want a database backend option:
sudo apt-get install libdbd-pgsql                # PostgreSQL database
sudo apt-get install libdbd-mysql                # MySQL database
sudo apt-get install libdbd-sqlite3              # Sqlite database

sudo apt-get install libofx-dev

sudo apt-get install aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev   # > v4.0.0
sudo apt-get install gwenhywfar-tools libgwenhywfar60 libgwenhywfar60-dev
sudo apt-get install ktoblzcheck libktoblzcheck1-dev

sudo apt-get install python3-pytest

As noted above, my box had many of these already so apt-get skipped the
install for them and told me I already had the latest.


2.  Download this source code from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/3.2/gnucash-3.2.tar.gz/download

3.  Move the file to where you want to house your source:   I made mine
$HOME/Projects/GnuCash.
    mkdir -p $HOME/Projects/GnuCash
    cd Downloads
    mv gnucash* $HOME/Projects/GnuCash

4.  Go there and build your source and build folders
    cd ../Projects/GnuCash
    gunzip gnucash*
    tar -xf gnucash*
    mkdir mybuild
    cd mybuild

5.  Compile and install
    cmake ../gnucash*
    make
    sudo make install

I'll admit that I made several mis-steps along the way and needed help
from the great folks here.  Hopefully this will get you going.
Oh, uninstall gnucash first if you already have a version.  I failed to
do that and had to remove some outdated files.
  


Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
kg7je at arrl.net
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