At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the message > just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this to the > list for information. Also see reply below. > > On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimudd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Colin, > > > > Sorry for the confusion. I what to just run gnucash from the flash drive. > > Fedora will be installed on the pc and gnucash as well as all the gnucash > > data will be on the flash drive. > > To be pedantic you don't want to run gnucash from the flash drive, you > want to run gnucash from the HDD and write and read the accounts file > to the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not > care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports to be > on the drive there may be a little more work. Most (all?) sensibly setup and configured Linux systems will refuse to *run* programs on removable media, since that is a massive security risk. Also, gnucash is generally dynamicaly linked and depends on various [shared] libraries that would need to be installed in system places (eg /usr/lib[64]/) from various dependent packages. So it is unlikely that putting *just* the gnucash exe file on the flash drive will work. Gnucash itself expects to find stuff in /usr/share/gnucash, which won't be on the flash drive. And also has its own pile of .so files in /usr/lib[64]/ that it will need to access. And it is likely that gnucash built for, say Ubuntu, may not run *as is* under fedora, becase of different library versions (and whatnot). You really need to just install the fedora build of gnucash on the fedora (there most likely is a gnucash-<mumble>.rpm out there somewhere, probably in the fedora repository, so a 'sudo yum install gnucash' will do everything needful.) But otherwise, having the *data* files on the thumb drive is a perfectly sensible thing to do. And is possible fairly secure as well. > > Colin > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote: > >> > >> On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac <ov10...@cox.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive using fedora? > >> > >> Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data file? If > >> you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash installed in > >> fedora on the PC then that is no problem. If you want to install the > >> program itself onto the flashdrive, with Fedora on the PC, then that > >> is more problematic. Or do you mean you want to run Fedora itself and > >> gnucash from the flash drive? > >> > >> Colin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
