[GNC] Deb 3.4.0.1 not working for me in ubuntu 18.04

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 1/8/19 1:11 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:52, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to get a better deb via Launchpad were we can put up a ppa
>> for folks to point to.  Probably name it "gnucash-daily", although I
>> don't see it changing daily but as commits are made to the maint branch.
>>
> >From my personal point of view the most useful ppa would be one that has
> the latest released version rather than a daily or similar version.


I'm open to hosting both:  gnucash  and gnucash-daily.

A project I did testing for (subsurface) had two similar ppa's.  Those
who wanted to stay "up-to-date" and those that "wanted-to-bleed". 
(nomenclature mine).


>
>> However, I am having problems with one of the tools (pbuilder-dest) and
>> have a query out in the Ubuntu Forums for input.  Nothing back when I
>> checked a minute ago.  I suspect I'm going to have to read the code
>> (shell script) for pbuild-dest and the debootstrap script it invokes
>> (also shell script).  The later complains that gpgv can't be found --
>> but I can invoke it just fine.  I am comfortable in ksh and hope that
>> transfers well to bsh.
>>
>> Wish I had better news and was making progress to get something really
>> useful.  My research indicates the check-install is not up to the task
>> of dealing with multiple O/S version.
>>
> I would love to be able to help here but it is an area outside my knowledge
> base.
>
> Colin
> _

Outside of mine also.  But, I'm interested and learning. 

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