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

[Jeff]

On 1/4/22 5:38 AM, davidcousens49 at gmail.com wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> If you are having difficulty Jeff you will have to tell us exactly what you have
> done and which commands you have entered into the terminal and exactly what the
> terminal output is to each command. We are not mind readers and we are not on
> your system so unless you tell us we do not know what is happening, we don't
> know.
>
> We need information to diagnose problems. Even worse a lot of us will not be on
> Ubuntu but on other Linux distributions. There are sometimes subtle and
> sometimes not so subtle differences to Ubuntu. The build instructions do assume
> some general familiarity with building software on Linux and Linux terminal
> operation.
>
> If you go to your Ubuntu menu, you should find a heading called something like
> Administration and it will have an entry with a name like Software Sources. If
> you click on that you will get a dialogue up. It should have a tab on the LH
> side with a name like Official Repositories and if you click on that there
> should be an entry Optional Sources.  If there is a switch, checkbox or other
> control labelled "Software code repositories" or similar make sure it is
> selected/checked etc.
>
>
> I have found for example that the apt -y switch does not work on Linux Mint. I
> am not sure about Ubuntu as Linux Mint uses a modified apt command. David
> Whiting's script was for Ubuntu 20.04 so it should have worked to install the
> dependencies.
>
> One thing you will have to do is find the script file in the file manager and
> check that it is marked for execution. If not the script won't run. You may have
> to alter the file manager options to display the file permissions. They should
> be "-rwxrwxr-x". The "x" in the last position has to be present.
>
> If not, if you open a terminal in the directory containing the copy of the
> script file, then the command
>
> chmod +x <script name>.sh
>
> will mark the script file as executable. Typing
>
> ./<script name>.sh
>
> in the terminal will then execute it
>
> If that does not work then the following will help to establish whether the
> dependencies have been installed. In any of the following substitute for any
> descriptor of the form enclosed in angle brackets e.g. <script name>, the actual
> name for the file on your system. In any output the descriptor will be replaced
> with an appropriate name
>
> Open a terminal and type in the following commands one at a time to check
> whether the dependencies are installed or not.
>
> ## Ubuntu 20.04
> ## In "Software and Updates":
> ## Tick "Source code"
> ## Tick "Community-maintained free and open-source software (Universe)"
>
> ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else.
> SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source"
> BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build"
>
> ## Change this if you want to install it somewhere else.
> INSTALLDIR=/opt/gnucash
>
> sudo apt -y update
> sudo apt -y upgrade
> sudo apt -y install git
> sudo apt -y build-dep gnucash
>
> ## To build series 4 of gnucash on Ubuntu 20.04
> sudo apt -y install libboost-program-options1.71-dev
>
> mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR
> mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
>
> ## Clone gnucash source from git
> git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR
>
> ## Checkout version 4.9
> cd $SOURCEDIR
> git checkout -b 4.9 4.9
>
> cd $BUILDDIR
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALLDIR $SOURCEDIR
>
> make
> The first two commands will update and upgrade the apt-cache and upgrade any
> installed packages. The last three lines should have the following lines in
> their output if the dependencies are installed.  If not the commands will
> install them.
>
> "<package name> is is already the newest version (<version number>)
> 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade."
>
> If not those commands should install the dependencies.
>
>
> try this and come back and report what happens.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
> On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 00:49 -0600, Jeff wrote:
>> On 12/24/21 8:30 AM, david whiting wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 09:11, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> But it appears I am not even a day old computer programmer, after 40
>>>> plus years of coding.  For the life of me I cannot get the 4.9 code and
>>>> tools for Ubuntu to install.  I've followed every link I can find, even
>>>> those that David Cousins provided and I still cannot get the source or
>>>> dependencies to install or download.
>>>>
>>>> Would someone please list for me in baby steps howto download and build
>>>> GNC 4.9 for Ubuntu?
>>>>
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> The script below will build version 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I have
>>> verified this on a clean installation of Ubuntu.
>>> One thing that tripped me up a few times is remembering to tick
>>> "Source Code" in the Software And Updates dialogue. If you don't do
>>> this, it will fail.
>>> Please note that I have used -y with apt install so it will install
>>> and build without asking.
>>>
>>> I will try to get around to putting this in the wiki to make it easier
>>> for people to find.
>>>
>>> === build.sh ===
>>>
>>> ## Ubuntu 20.04
>>> ## In "Software and Updates":
>>> ## Tick "Source code"
>>> ## Tick "Community-maintained free and open-source software (Universe)"
>>>
>>> ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else.
>>> SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source"
>>> BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build"
>>>
>>> ## Change this if you want to install it somewhere else.
>>> INSTALLDIR=/opt/gnucash
>>>
>>> sudo apt -y update
>>> sudo apt -y upgrade
>>> sudo apt -y install git
>>> sudo apt -y build-dep gnucash
>>>
>>> ## To build series 4 of gnucash on Ubuntu 20.04
>>> sudo apt -y install libboost-program-options1.71-dev
>>>
>>> mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR
>>> mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
>>>
>>> ## Clone gnucash source from git
>>> git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR
>>>
>>> ## Checkout version 4.9
>>> cd $SOURCEDIR
>>> git checkout -b 4.9 4.9
>>>
>>> cd $BUILDDIR
>>> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALLDIR $SOURCEDIR
>>>
>>> make
>>>
>>> === End of build.sh ===
>>>
>>> Fingers-crossed this will work for you.
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>
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When I run the scripts you provided I get the following:

W: Failed to fetch http://Community-maintained/dists/free/InRelease  
Temporary failure resolving 'Community-maintained'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old 
ones used instead.

Software update refuses to let me add that.

As for for error messages for four times, I have had different error 
lists each time.

I am missing some beginners error each time.

Right now I have to stop trying to build on my own a working GNC 4.9, 
tax time is here and the IRS waits for no one.  Once tax time is over I 
will try again.  One way or another I am going to build the current 
version of GNC on my server, come hell or high water.

Thank you for your support, I'll be back later to aggravate you all.

Cheers to you all for your support.  Aggravate you again all latter.


-- 
--JEffrey Black M.B.A.