[GNC] Building GC 5.4 on Ubuntu 20.04

[john]

> On Dec 11, 2023, at 08:49, Tim Kallmer <tkallmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it not possible to build GC 5.4 on Ubuntu 20.04?
> 
> I installed all the build requirements, including gwenhywfar-tools. It
> looks like Ubuntu 20.04 will only install gwenhywfar 5.1.3. So during make,
> it is looking for gwenhywfar 5.6.0. and then it fails as below:
> 
> -- Checking for module 'gwenhywfar>=5.6.0'
> --   Requested 'gwenhywfar >= 5.6.0' but version of gwenhywfar is 5.1.3
> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:463
> (message):
>  A required package was not found
> 
> If it's not possible, I am fine staying at GC 4.9.
> _______________________________________________

It's still possible, just not with the distro-provided Gwenhywfar and AQBanking. If you don't use AQBanking you can simply disable it at configuration time by passing -DWITH_AQBANKING=OFF to cmake. If you do need it then you'll have to build them from source. The current tarballs can be retrieved from

https://www.aquamaniac.de/rdm/attachments/download/501/gwenhywfar-5.10.2.tar.gz <https://www.aquamaniac.de/rdm/attachments/download/>
https://www.aquamaniac.de/rdm/attachments/download/499/aqbanking-6.5.4.tar.gz

The third alternative is to use flatpak, see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak.

Regards,
John Ralls