[GNC] GnuCash 4.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Adrien Monteleone adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Sat Nov 28 14:09:12 EST 2020


I recall having this problem when trying to build on 20.04. I never 
solved it and gave up. (I use Mac as my daily driver)

I would think there is a file with a requirement for 1.65 hardcoded in 
error, when it should be looking for >= 1.65.


Regards,
Adrien

On 11/27/20 5:27 PM, Derek Zehr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently updated from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04. Which is a major 
> thing to do, and can't expect to go without a couple hiccoughs.
> 
> Since the upgrade, GnuCash doesn't start. Here is the output when I try 
> to launch it from the Terminal.
> 
> ~$ gnucash
> gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libboost_program_options.so.1.65.1: cannot open shared object file: No 
> such file or directory
> 
> Libboost is only available in version 1.67 and 1.71 on the distro's 
> package manager. Do I need to manually install 1.65?



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