[GNC] v3.8

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 12:09 PM boldstripe <michael.nabble at wengam.com>
wrote:

> Someone helpfully placed .deb packages for Gnucash 3.8 here (today):
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/
>
> There are old postings on the mail list that explain how to use these.
>

Just after I saw this message the other day I successfully downloaded and
built the Debian version 3.8b package on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04. I haven't
tested it a lot, but after adjusting for some libraries, it does build,
install, and run without errors. I presume it should build for Ubuntu
derivative distributions, too.

I got the following error on the first try:
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libaqbanking-dev (>=
5.99.43) libgwengui-gtk3-dev (>= 4.99.24)

SO all I had to do to get the package to build was

1) Created source directory & downloaded packages
  $ mkdir ~/src/gnucash
  $ cd ~/src/gnucash
  $ dget
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/gnucash_3.8b-1.dsc

2) Made the usual changes to debian/changelog to indicate a non-maintainer
version for Ubuntu
  $ cd gnucash-3.8b/
  $ dch --nmu
[Modified the version number to 1:3.8b-1~ubuntu18.04.1 then wrote out the
bullet points for my changes]

3) Changed the compiler flags in debian/rules (because of the older
compiler in Bionic)
   $  sed -i 's/export DEB_CXXFLAGS/#export DEB_CXXFLAGS/' debian/rules

4) Changed debian/control lines for the package versions available in
Bionic.
  ,libaqbanking-dev (>= 5.7.8-1)
  ,libgwengui-gtk3-dev (>= 4.20.0-1)

5) Built it
  $ dpkg-buildpackage

6) Installed it
  $ cd ..
  $ dpkg -i *.deb *.ddeb

(I presume the Debian package maintainer specified the more recent package
versions to fix particular bugs so I would expect there might be some
subtle issues I haven't encountered yet.)

P.S.: I know the procedure above is too terse for beginners. I hope to put
a more explicit procedure in the wiki soon.

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