[GNC] building gnucash on ubuntu 20.04

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Tue Dec 21 04:12:02 EST 2021


Op maandag 20 december 2021 00:47:33 CET schreef John Griessen:
> On 12/17/21 09:45, John Griessen wrote:
> > will get the 4.8 tag from git and try it.
> 
> I tried 4.8 and got an instant segfault, so I tried 4.8a.
> That gave odd GUI differences -- no colored bands for lines and that was so
> disorienting I went back to the minor bugs in the flatpak GnuCash
> org.gnucash.GnuCash  4.8a+ (Flathub 4.8-1)
> version.
> 
> I was using a build dir with the same parent dir as the git checkout of tag
> 4.8a.

Hi, it looks like you lost your settings while switching to your self-built gnucash.

There can be many reasons for this:
- You have only ever run gnucash from flatpak and are now switching to a self-built gnucash 
for the first time. That would be expected behaviour (outside of gnucash control). Think of 
flatpak as running completely independent from your host system. So the host doesn't see 
anything from what happens in flatpak land.
- You have or had a previous version of gnucash installed (pre-4.7), that version is still around 
and the search paths for settings (GSettings to be precise) are such that the settings 
configuration of the old version is preferred over the new one.
- You had previously built gnucash verion 4.6 or older and did not uninstall that version prior 
to installing your freshly built gnucash 4.8+
- ... other situations we haven't come across yet.

There is no easy solution for the first situation. That's like migrating from one PC to another. 
The wiki has some details on how to export and import preferences if you really want to do 
so.
For the other two it's a matter of figuring out which older gnucash is interfering with your 
current one.

Regards,

Geert


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