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

[Adrien Monteleone]

Wow, last time I built GC for Xenial I didn’t have to install all of that mess. Was there a major change in dependencies between 3.1 and 3.5?

Regards,
Adrien
> On May 18, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> On 5/17/19 5:13 AM, Nathan T Alexander wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> There are a lot of dependencies that you need to load first.  The
> easiest is to run the below script (provided by another user on the list):
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> clear
> # this script was developed to install a basic development environment
> # for GnuCash > V3 on a Linux Mint 19 OS
> echo "Script to install development environment for GnuCash ~V3.0"
> echo ""
> echo "Installing build environment:"
> echo "   build-essential"
> sudo apt install build-essential
> echo "   cmake"
> sudo apt install cmake
> echo "   ninja-build"
> sudo apt install ninja-build
> echo ""
> echo "Installing GnuCash dependencies and development headers:"
> echo "   libglib2.0 and dev headers"
> sudo apt install libglib2.0 libglib2.0-dev
> echo "   libxml2 libxml++2.6-dev libxml2-utils"
> sudo apt install libxml2 libxml++2.6-dev libxml2-utils
> echo "   libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev"
> sudo apt install libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev
> echo "   libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev"
> sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
> echo "   gtk+3.0 libgtk-3-dev"
> sudo apt install gtk+3.0 libgtk-3-dev
> echo "   zlib1g zlib1g-dev"
> sudo apt install zlib1g zlib1g-dev
> echo "   guile-2.0 guile-2.0-dev"
> sudo apt install guile-2.0 guile-2.0-dev
> echo "   swig   3.0 on LM19  2.0 on Lm18?"
> sudo apt install swig
> echo "   sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev"
> sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
> echo "   libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-0-dev"
> sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-0-dev
> echo " AqBanking Tools"
> echo "   aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev"
> sudo apt-get install aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev
> echo "   gwenhywfar-tools libgwenhywfar60 libgwenhywfar60-dev"
> sudo apt-get install gwenhywfar-tools libgwenhywfar60 libgwenhywfar60-dev
> echo "   ktoblzcheck libktoblzcheck1-dev"
> sudo apt-get install ktoblzcheck libktoblzcheck1-dev
> echo " OFX support"
> echo "   libofx libofx-dev"
> sudo apt-get install libofx-dev
> echo "   xsltproc"
> sudo apt-get install xsltproc
> echo " Database backend support"
> echo "   libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-pgsql libdbd-mysql libdbd-sqlite3"
> sudo apt-get install libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-pgsql libdbd-mysql
> libdbd-sqlite3
> echo " Python support"
> sudo apt-get install python3-pytest
> echo " Google Test"
> sudo apt install googletest
> 
> Save the above as:  gnucash-development-depndency-setup.sh
> 
> Set the execute bit and run it.
> 
> Then be sure to run the build commands in a folder different than the
> source folder.  I also think there are special things needed for a
> tarball, so I've been using a git clone (still learning about git
> myself) instead. 
> 
> --Steve
> 
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> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
> kg7je at arrl.net
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