[GNC] Upgrading GC under Ubuntu

[David Carlson]

Before 'rolling your own' GnuCash, check out Getdeb.net.  They may not have
3 series yet, but they are up to 2.6.17 at least, if not later.

David C

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 2:50 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> 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
> 253-350-0166
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