[GNC] Build From Source Near Impossible

[david whiting]

I think we should remove the instructions from
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Ubuntu for 21.10. Anyone
have any objections to that?

David

On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 at 16:26, Adrien Monteleone
<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> Ditto concerning Ubuntu versions.
>
> In my experience so far building on older versions of Ubuntu, you can
> stumble into a nasty nearly un-resolvable dependency hell. It *can* be
> resolved (best I have figured out so far) by pinning lots of packages,
> but that may not always be the best solution for everyone and is more of
> an exercise to determine if it 'can be done at all'. Save for the sheer
> satisfaction of having tackled it, there is little practical value.
> (more than likely, those held packages are used by other apps and you'll
> eventually have problems when you update them)
>
> As I understand, GnuCash supports whatever OS versions their respective
> vendors support. So if you're using anything EOL (even in between
> supported versions) you're on your own. If you can't upgrade to a
> supported OS, a Flatpak is now provided should you also need/want a
> newer GnuCash version than whatever is in your OS repos.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 8/6/22 8:07 AM, Robert Simmons wrote:
> > First of all, Impish is already EOL.
>
>
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David Whiting