[GNC] Libboost_regex needed

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 10/23/18 8:54 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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?


Problem happened on 18.10 after upgrade and reboot.  Folks gave 
suggestions and it made things worse.

At least I'm back up with my restore from backup.

>
> 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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