[GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[brad]

David,  Will your script build the latest stable release?  If not what 
do I change to do that?

On 10/2/21 11:48 AM, david whiting wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 07:11, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> I would settle for a copy of "Building the Newest Version of GNC for
>> Dummies Course" book.
> Others have shown you that you can use flatpak to get the latest
> version, but if you do want to build from source I have found that the
> following works on Ubuntu 20.04. I have also attached it as a script.
> This clones the source from git and by default builds the maintenance
> version. The versions are tagged, so you can use git to checkout a
> different version and build that if you want, e.g. you could build 4.8
> rather than maint.
>
> ==== build-gnucash.sh  ====
>
> ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else.
> SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source"
> BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build"
>
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt upgrade
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> ## This is one long line
> sudo apt install git make cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev
> libxslt1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev gettext swig guile-3.0-dev
> libofx-dev xsltproc libboost-all-dev libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-sqlite3
> libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev
> gwenhywfar-tools libgwengui-gtk3-dev
>
> # Only use the next 2 lines if you have not installed [[Google_Test |
> Google Test]] already.
> sudo apt install libgtest-dev                # >=1.7.0
> sudo apt install google-mock                 # 1.8.0 installs
> googlemock in a subdirectory of gtest
>
> mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR
> mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
>
> ## Clone gnucash source from git, if it is not already there
> [ ! -d $SOURCEDIR/gnucash ] && git clone
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR
>
> cd $BUILDDIR
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/gnucash $SOURCEDIR
>
> make
>
> ==== end of script ====
>
> David
>
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