[GNC] new v3.0 install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[DaveC49]

Dennis,

The instructions on the BuildUbuntu16.04 have now  been modified so that
they recommend the  preferred place for the build directory is in the parent
directory of the GnuCash sources as John and Geert recommended this as the
preferred location. 

It can actually be anywhere you wish to put it as long, as you issue the
cmake command from the build directory and supply the path to the
gnucash-3.1 sources as the last entry in the cmake command. 

You will find some links to breakout pages which discuss positioning the
build directory on a link from the wiki page in more detail and why it is
preferred. Use the recommended location unless you are confident you know
how to modify the cmake command if you do change the location.

In my last post, there were a set of commands which you can just type in as
they are given there if you open a shell in
/home/dennis/Applications.

This is assuming that /home/dennis/Applications contains the gnucash-3.1
source directory in it as you indicated. 

If you have installed all the dependencies, that should build GnuCash. If
any dependencies are missing, the output of the cmake command should
identify which they are. In that case install the missing depenency and then
you delete the build directory then run the commands from

cd /home/dennis/Applications
mkdir build-gnucash-3.1
...

again until cmake completes without error. Then run 
make 
and 
make install.

If you are not sure of any errors issued by cmake if you copy the output of
the cmake command from the terminal to a text file and attach it to your
next post, we can work out what is happening.

The easiest way to get such a file is to direct the output of the cmake
command to a file. You can do this by appending " > cmake-output.txt" to the
end of the cmake command then attach the file that is produced to your next
post. If you are using Nabble to access the Gnucash User forum it is in the
popup menu displayed from the More button. If you are using email just
attach the file.


David



-----
David Cousens
--
Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html