[GNC] Trustworthy easy way to install gnucash 3.5 on ubuntu?

[Nathan T Alexander]

OK I tried compiling it myself.

I downloaded the tarball and unzipped it into a /usr/loca/src/build-gnucash:

Then I tried to follow the instructions here: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux , so I ran:

n at g:/usr/local/src/build-gnucash-3.5$ sudo cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
-- Checking for module 'glib-2.0>=2.40'
--   
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:367 (message):
  A required package was not found
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:532 (_pkg_check_modules_internal)
  common/cmake_modules/GncFindPkgConfig.cmake:253 (PKG_CHECK_MODULES)
  CMakeLists.txt:194 (gnc_pkg_check_modules)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/usr/local/src/build-gnucash-3.5/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
n at g:/usr/local/src/build-gnucash-3.5$ 


Now I am stuck, how do a learn to read the output of these messages, it is not clear what I am supposed to do? How do I learn this stuff or what do I do?

I just want gnucash to run.

-- 
  Nathan T Alexander
  nta at nathanalexander.net

On Fri, May 17, 2019, at 6:17 AM, Nathan T Alexander wrote:
> Thanks for replying, Colin
> 
> I am using:
> 
> :~$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS"
> 
> And I happen to use Xubuntu variant, (not sure if that matters)
> 
> ok now I am trying to figure out if its going to be easier to compie  
> my own gnucash as instructed on your website or if I can get the 
> gnucash 3.3 package from another version of ubuntu
> 
> Any tips are greatly appreciated
> 
> -- 
>   Nathan T Alexander
>   nta at nathanalexander.net
> 
> On Tue, May 14, 2019, at 3:36 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 08:22, Nathan T Alexander
> > <nta at nathanalexander.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, great app, love it so much.
> > >
> > > The version on ubuntu and in debian is 2.6.
> > 
> > Which version of Ubuntu?  The latest Ubuntu has version 3.3.
> > 
> > Colin
> >