[GNC] Libboost_regex needed
Stephen M. Butler
kg7je at arrl.net
Tue Oct 23 11:46:48 EDT 2018
Not sure who maintains the Wiki for Ubuntu builds, but I had to install
libboost-all-dev on my Ubuntu 18.04 last night in order to run GnuCash
after a successful compile/build.
Longer story --
Tried to upgrade to 18.10. Worked until I shut down and powered up the
next morning. Could not mount the home directory (turns out it is
encrypted and the mount got a "bad address"). Trying to roll back to
18.04 compounded the problem (booting off a live USB ISO reported the
disk config was wrong).
I finally gave up and loaded a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 and have spent the
last two days getting things installed and back running. GnuCash was one
of the last ones. I pulled the latest from github (git clone) did a
clean cmake, make, sudo make install but ran into the missing shared
library libboost-regex. After an hour of digging I finally found
reference to libboost-all-dev. That installed a lot of things but cured
the missing shared library.
I think I'll give 18.10 a couple of months to mature some more. I also
un-encrypted the home directory. Thankfully the restore from the daily
backups worked (took a long time).
Wish there was a way to backup the current o/s state and restore/reload
it automatically rather than all that typing I had to do to get items
added back. I'm sure I missed a lot (my favorites are not so crowded
today)!
--Steve
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Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
kg7je at arrl.net
253-350-0166
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