It’s Debian and derivatives: Ubuntu is a derivative--or these days maybe a symbiote, there are Canonical reps on the Debian board--of Debian.
I frankly don’t understand why Ubuntu needs a per-release explanation of how to build it, especially since Debian doesn’t. `sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash` installs everything you need to build 2.6; there are a few additional packages (cmake, ninja, swig, xsltproc, libgtk-3-dev, libboost-all-dev, googletest, and libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev) to build 3. After that it’s the same directory creation, clone gnucash.git, cmake, and ninja reqardless of distro version. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 18, 2018, at 6:52 PM, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 11:18 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>> On Sep 18, 2018, at 7:53 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger >>> <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Perhaps you can do some cleanup: Is Gutsy outdated? >> >> That was version 7.10 of Ubuntu, that is, released October 2007. By far, it >> is no longer supported by Canonical. >> (wasn’t even a Long Term Support release) And there is not even a hardware >> reason that anyone should be running it. I >> don’t even think the repos for it are even available any longer. >> >> The oldest supported Ubuntu version is 14.04 (and then only until next >> April) I shouldn’t think any build instructions >> are necessary (unless in an archived page if desired) for anything older >> than this. >> >>> >>>> The main building page is a massive tome. I did start breaking out some >>>> parts of it into smaller logical chunks when I updated the BuildUbuntu16.04 >>>> ( which covers 16.04, 18.04 and Linux MInt 18 and 19 in effect.). >>> >>> Shouldn’t it be renamed to BuildUbuntu then? >> >> I agree, the link text/page title is confusing and there have already been >> questions about what instructions to use >> for building on 18.04.(yes, I see that it says this is for 18.04 as well, >> but clearly someone didn’t or they wouldn’t >> have asked) >> >> If replacing content with a link to a dedicated page is desired practice for >> cleaning up the wiki, then I’d propose >> all of the material for building on Ubuntu be moved to that page, that it be >> renamed simply BuildUbuntu and that the >> main build page be left with a link to it for the Ubuntu section. As it is, >> the original build page still contains >> long outdated info. I would have instead expected to see the most current >> instructions there and then maybe a link for >> older versions. > > Adrien ,John > > I too think the break out from that main page could be better structured and > the BuildingUbuntu16.04 renamed something > like BuildingUbuntu&Derivatives. I had intended to address that after > rewriting the BuildUbuntu16.04 but ended up > distracted with other priorities. > > Also the main page could perhaps have a one line breakout to a Building on > Linux page. The page name as long as it is > descriptive to some extent is less important than the information in the link > specifying what it links to e.g. > [[BuildingUbuntu&Derivatives | Building on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and Linux > Mint]]. Despite this I think it is important to > get to the information the user will actually use in the minimum number of > steps. Wiki navigation can be dodgy at > times. I would propose a link to the at least the general Building page > somewhere on the wiki entry point page might > help achieve that given John's comment and info in another post on searching > of wiki pages. > > David Cousens >> >> Along with that, if older material for older systems and versions isn’t >> going to be moved to its own ‘archive’ page, >> then it should always appear down the page in chronological order. The >> current state of the build instructions is a >> bit messy in that regard. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel> _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
