[GNC] Libboost_regex needed

[Colin Law]

I have not heard of any problems with encrypted drives on Ubuntu
18.04, did you ask on, for example, the Ubuntu Users list for help
getting it sorted?

Colin
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 16:49, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> 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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