On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 22:00 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Yes, indeed it breaks. We learned that the hard way. We repackaged it > > using the newer source. I do not know how we submit such repacking for > > backports but here are the steps we took to make it happen (edited to > > protect internal information: <snip> > > Other steps MUST not be done by root so we need another user console to do > > the following steps. > > We will need the 2.2.6 source deb to have all the various settings and > > options used by debian. > > These will be in the debian directory and is really all we need from the > > source deb. We will store this in gnucash-2.2.6 > > We will also need the 2.2.9 source tarball. We will store this in gnucash > > which will become the deb build directory > > mkdir /download/gnucash > > mkdir /download/gnucash-2.2.6 > > cd /download/gnucash-2.2.6 > > apt-get -t lenny-backports source gnucash gnucash-common > > You imply that since the foregoing steps must not be done as root, they > must be done as my user. It is impossible however to make those two > directories other than as root. That is correct - a mistake in my documentation > Also, I don't see how I can run the > last line above other than as root. I believe it does work but you will need write rights to the directory. > <snip> > You specify amd64; whereas I am using intel in all three of our computers. Yes - certainly adapt it to your environment. Thanks for the feedback - John <snip>
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