[GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[david whiting]

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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