[GNC] How to install Gnucash 3.8 on Debian 10 "buster"?

[David Cousens]

Ken

As Adrien has indicated once you move past installing the distributions
repository version, you are relying on an individual making a package
available or buidling the version from sources yourself. There are so many
different Linux distributions that it is really not possible to produce
totally generic installation instructions that will work flawlessly on all
distributions.

The build instructions in the Building GnuCash on Linux should work for
Debian and Ubuntu distributions as is. Once you have the build environment
setup and the dependencies installed as per the instructions, the actual
build itself is not too difficult, just follow the instructions. If you get
errors, the error messages generally indicate what packages are missing or
are not the correct version. If you have problems come back to the list and
tell us what is happening and we can usually sort it out.

If you are concerned about affecting the system, you can do a local single
user install under your home directory but an install to a system location
such as /usr/local is actually easier as you won't need to create softlinks
and add directories to the path variable to make running GnuCash easy as
this is all done for you.

While it is possible to break a Linux system, it is generally much harder to
do tahn you would think.

David Cousens



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