[GNC] Creating debian package

[Stephen M. Butler]

Some have asked how I create the debian packages on Ubuntu.  Someone
more knowledgeable about wiki's may want to capture this in an
appropriate area.

I presume that the user already has an area within $HOME for their
projects.  Mine is ./Projects and holds several different items like
GnC.  Within Projects I have ./GnuCash so it is kept separate from
Subsurface, X-Plane, PicMicro, etc.

You would also need to setup for using dpkg-buildpackage (there are
several web sites that describe the setup for using this).

The below is the commands that would be used if someone wants to start
from nothing (copying from notes so please excuse any typos).

# setup the Projects area just in case my presumption is wrong
cd $HOME
mkdir Projects
cd Projects
mkdir GnuCash
cd GnuCash

#grab a clone of the GnuCash git repsoitory
git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash
cd gnucash
git checkout 3.5   ;# or 3.4 or whichever you desire.  If you want
absolute latest then use "git checkout  maint" instead.
GITVER=$(git describe)
MYVER=${GITVER%-*}
MYRPR=gnucash_${MYVER}
MYTAR=${MYRPR}.orig.tar

#Pick the Ubuntu version for which you want to compile:  trusty, xenial,
bionic, disco, etc.
MYDISTRO=trusty

#bring in the debian folder and modify version and distro flags as noted.
cp -r ../debian .
sed -e "s/MYVER/${MYVER}/;s/MYDISTRO/$MYDISTRO/" ../debian/changelog >
debian/changelog

# pull in the dependencies as noted in the control file
sudo mk-build-deps -ir debian/control
# For 3.5 you need to manually change line 137 in
$HOME/GnuCash/gnucash/common/cmake_modules/GncAddTest.cmake
# from:       set(GTST_LIB "${GTEST_SHARED_LIB};${GTEST_MAIN_LIB}"
PARENT_SCOPE)

#    to:       set(GTEST_LIB "${GTEST_MAIN_LIB};${GTEST_SHARED_LIB}"
PARENT_SCOPE)

#At this point all is ready to build the debian packages

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc


# this will result in 7 files in the GnuCash folder (the parent to the
git clone  where the above command was run.

# of these, the 3 *.deb files are the debian packages to be installed:

-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve    19751 May 21 08:17 gnucash_3.5-0_amd64.buildinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve     2266 May 21 08:17 gnucash_3.5-0_amd64.changes
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve  3957024 May 21 08:17 gnucash_3.5-0_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve  5127172 May 21 08:17 gnucash-common_3.5-0_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 20918176 May 21 08:17
gnucash-dbgsym_3.5-0_amd64.ddeb
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve   269932 May 21 08:17
python3-gnucash_3.5-0_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve   769424 May 21 08:17
python3-gnucash-dbgsym_3.5-0_amd64.ddeb


I have added a "debian" folder to the "GnuCash" google drive folder that
contains a modified version  of the debian files.  Here is a link to the
"GnuCash" folder:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s-E6t-snmQiEFaT_hlWF2KHWrIB_LV2x





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Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
kg7je at arrl.net
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