[GNC] Debian Files for GnuCash 3.4-x

[Ronal B Morse]

I downloaded the 3.4 release debs for testing with Ubuntu
18.10.  One can just double-click on the individual .debs and
the Ubuntu software installer will take care of the rest.
Install gnucash-common first as it is required by the main
program. I also installed the python .deb before the main
program, but I don't know if that makes any difference. 

I don't use the online transaction, price or quotes retrieval
functions so I don't know if those work. I haven't done much
with reports except to verify a balance sheet prints. Check
printing works. 

Testing was done with a data file I copied over from my
production machine that runs Gnucash 3.2-something.  No
apparent problems noted. 

Nice job, and thanks. 

Ron Morse. 


On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 10:34 -0800, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> On 2/8/19 12:44 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 22:18, Stephen M. Butler <
> > kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Should work on any distro that will accept a *.deb
> > > package file. Note
> > > the operative word here is "should".
> > That's interesting, I assumed it would have to have built
> > in
> > dependencies on particular packages.  Has anyone tried
> > them on Ubuntu
> > 16.04?
> > 
> > If I run
> > apt-cache depends gnucash
> > it shows the list of packages that need to be installed
> > to make it go.
> > This includes, for example, libboost-date-time1.65.1, I
> > would have
> > expected the install to fail if the distribution does not
> > have that
> > package available.  I may be wrong here though, I am a
> > bit out of my
> > comfort zone.
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> I uninstalled gnucash and removed all "released" packages
> then did an
> install on my box and it brought in all the dependent
> packages.
> 
> Here are my steps:
> 
> sudo apt remove gnucash gnucash-common python3-gnucash
> 
> sudo apt autoremove
> 
> sudo apt install ./*_3.4_*.deb
> 
> I've down this on Ubuntu 18.04 and have heard that it works
> on Ubuntu
> 18.10.  Let me know the results if you try it on Ubuntu
> 16.04.
> 
> Note:  If you built from scratch and installed that build,
> you may need
> to do "sudo make uninstall" from the old build directory.
>