Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https:// wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid installation prefix.
While checking for another thread I have found this to be problematic. In particular when using this installation prefix, a number of files and directories will be added in $HOME/.local/share/. That directory however is also to primary directory where a running applications store their runtime data. So the same directory is being used as installation directory and data directory. That makes it pretty difficult to quickly remove the local gnucash installation in one go as the installation directory may also hold runtime data (and from more than one application!). So personally I would recommend against using $HOME/.local as installation prefix. I am however curious where this suggestion originally came from. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
