[GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

DaveC49 davidcousens at bigpond.com
Fri May 4 20:53:41 EDT 2018


Hi Dennis,

I recently updated the Ubuntu 16.04 build instructions so I am glad to get
your feedback on issues which may be unclear and any errors I may have
incorporated. I will try to modify the instructions to make it clearer and
eliminate errors. If you find any issues that are specific to Ubuntu 18.04
please flag them as I am running Linux Mint based on 16.04 and I will add
them as specific notes for 18.04. I started this after my own difficulties
building Gnucash 3.0 from the original page. I have added a couple of
breakout pages which give more detail about the build directory location. I
noted that there is an inconsistency between the notation in the main page
and the breakout page re using <target> in two contexts so I will fix that. 

There is a breakoutpage also listing the CMAKE option switches.
Unfortunately you do have to type the whole CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=... .
Fortunately most of the option defaults are sensible. I think for
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX the default is /usr/local so if you use the command
without  that switch it should install in that location. 

$HOME is usually defined as /home/<user> where <user> is the logged in
username.
Adding the $HOME/.local/bin is best done with 

$export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin. My apologies I copied that from another
page and stuffed it up.  This only changes the PATH variable as defined in
the currently open terminal/shell. To make the changes permanent, they
should be included in either the .profile file or the .bashrc file in your
home directory. 

Cheers

David




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