[GNC] Trouble building 5.3

[Liz]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 18:27:52 -0700
John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> > On Jul 22, 2023, at 5:15 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:25:38 -0700
> > Steve Butler <stephen.m.butler51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> First I would upgrade those 191 packages.
> >> 
> >> sudo apt update
> >> sudo apt upgrade
> >> 
> >> Make sure everything upgradable was upgraded.
> >> 
> >> Check that you have build-essentials.  
> > 
> > May I suggest checking what would happen if you did upgrade first?
> > sudo apt update
> > sudo apt -s upgrade  
> 
> 
> It won't help. Ubuntu doesn't update Gwenhywfar and AQBanking
> post-release, and they're not in focal-backports. Gwen 5.6.0 and
> AQBanking 6.2.10 are in Debian's buster-backports
> (https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/) so you could see if you
> can install them from there.
> 
> If that fails they're both pretty easy to build from source. Download
> from https://www.aquamaniac.com.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 

I was thinking that the user would check the output, and see if
gwenhywfar or aqbanking were in the list to be upgraded before
upgrading any packages.
As you note, they wouldn't be, and then the next option is to build the
required packages as well as Gnucash.

Liz