[GNC] Build From Source Near Impossible

Sat Aug 6 19:06:22 EDT 2022

Rob 
There were originally breakout pages from the building on Linux for specific
information related to various Linux distributions including one for Ubuntu.
That seems to have now morphed into a general installation page for Ubuntu 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu and the Ubuntu specific build instructions
seem to have diasappeared completely and what is there is now useless as it
points back to the general build instructions for Linux (they were largely done
on Linux Mint but I tried to make them as generic as possible). I think the
intention was to collect all the Ubuntu related stuff in one point but that
somewhat defeats the point of a breakout page for build stuff specific to a
distribution,

david Cousens

On Sat, 2022-08-06 at 09:07 -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
> First of all, Impish is already EOL. You will need to use a flavor of 22.04
> LTS for the following. The documentation for how to build GnuCash is
> confusing and not all in one place. The following begins with a fresh
> install of Lubuntu 22.04 LTS. I use Vagrant so that everything is
> deterministically built once I have finished figuring out the correct set
> of steps. But, Vagrant is not a requirement; you don't have to use that.
> The patch used below is the following. Put it in your /tmp directory before
> starting.
> https://pastebin.com/qUmxyyLq
> 
> sudo patch /etc/apt/sources.list /tmp/sources_list.patch
> sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
> mkdir ~/opt
> wget
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.11/gnucash-4.11.tar.gz
> mkdir build-gnucash-4.11
> tar -zxvf gnucash-4.11.tar.gz
> cd build-gnucash-4.11/
> cmake -DWITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt ../gnucash-4.11
> make
> make install
> 
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 7:03 AM crusadeon09 via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm running Ubuntu, 21.10, Impish Indri.
> > 
> > I downloaded the 4.11 tarball, gnucash-4.11.tar.bz2
> > 
> > I followed these directions:
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Build_Tools
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux
> > 
> > I tried changing repositories. I ran "sudo apt update" multiple times. The
> > dependencies for 4.11 simply wouldn't install.
> > 
> > (base) chris at chris-B550-AORUS-ELITE:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > libgtk-3-dev : Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (= 3.24.30-1ubuntu1) but
> > 3.24.30-1ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
> > Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev (>= 2.40.0) but it is not going to be
> > installed or
> > libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev (>= 2.40.0) but it is not going to be installed
> > Depends: libgtk-3-0 (= 3.24.30-1ubuntu1) but 3.24.30-1ubuntu1.1 is to be
> > installed
> > libpython3.9-dev : Depends: libpython3.9-stdlib (= 3.9.7-2build1) but
> > 3.9.7-2ubuntu0.1 is to be installed
> > Depends: libpython3.9 (= 3.9.7-2build1) but 3.9.7-2ubuntu0.1 is to be
> > installed
> > libsepol1-dev : Depends: libsepol1 (= 3.1-1ubuntu2) but 3.1-1ubuntu2.1 is
> > to be installed
> > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev : Depends: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (=
> > 2.34.6-0ubuntu0.21.10.1) but 2.36.3-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 is to be installed
> > Depends: gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 (= 2.34.6-0ubuntu0.21.10.1) but
> > 2.36.3-0ubuntu0.21.10.1 is to be installed
> > Depends: libsoup2.4-dev (>= 2.40) but it is not going to be installed
> > Depends: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev (= 2.34.6-0ubuntu0.21.10.1) but it
> > is not going to be installed
> > libxml2-dev : Depends: libxml2 (= 2.9.12+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1) but
> > 2.9.12+dfsg-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
> > python3.9-dev : Depends: python3.9 (= 3.9.7-2build1) but 3.9.7-2ubuntu0.1
> > is to be installed
> > Depends: libpython3.9 (= 3.9.7-2build1) but 3.9.7-2ubuntu0.1 is to be
> > installed
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > 
> > I tried loading them individually, but the names are just slightly off.
> > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies
> > 
> > Ubuntu sees them differently I guess. https://packages.ubuntu.com/
> > 
> > After a couple of hours of carefully trying to build from source, I give
> > up. Looks like Ubuntu Software Center has 4.11 in a flatpak.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any better instructions? I'd even submit to watching a
> > video at this point.
> > 
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