[GNC] Idiots guide to building GNC 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04LTS

[Adrien Monteleone]

*Caveat, I haven't tried building 4.9 yet, or used the referenced 
script, but the below should still apply generally:

You're not dealing with a PPA.

The script is getting the source from Github and then building.

A PPA contains already built packages.

The wiki shows how to get info from the tracefile and how to run from 
the terminal to get error output.

Reporting back that info, might enable someone here to help you figure 
out why the app built successfully, but doesn't run properly.

You are (allegedly) beyond the build stage. Now you have run-time 
problems. (which could be due to a faulty build, but without precise 
error info, there is no way to know)

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/4/22 12:49 AM, Jeff wrote:
> I executed the above script but it did not build an executable version 
> of GNC.  Correction, it built an executable program, that immediately 
> started spouting error messages then even faster closed its terminal 
> window.
> 
> A couple of posts remind to remember to "tick Source Code in the 
> Software And Updates dialogue" or the script would not work.  They fail 
> to mention for what PPA.
> 
> What PPA's do I need for GNC?  (on Ubuntu 20.04LTS)
> 
> The desktop icon file was also a complete gremlin. That issue may 
> resolve itself once I can successfully build a live, healthy, vivacious, 
> running version of 4.9 from source.
> 
> As of now I am renaming the thread from "how to remove both GNC 4.2 and 
> Flathub version 4.8 so can upgrade to 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04LTS" to "Idiots 
> guide to building GNC 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04LTS" as we have moved way past 
> removing 4.2 and Flathub 4.8.  Right now I feel like a CSC 101 student 
> in a CSC 401 class, even though I went to CSC 640 in college and 880 in 
> the real world, yet I cannot successfully build GNC.  Both irritating 
> and humiliating.
> 
> Somewhere I am overlooking that one simple first year programmers error.
>