At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:00:33 -0500 David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing > Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent storage. > That is based on Debian Linux. It worked, but it was somewhat clumsy. The > nice thing is that all the data is completely encrypted and insulated from > intruders, "sandboxed" if you will. Tails is a "special case" -- it is specificly designed to live on a (possibly encrypted) flash drive as a "security" feature. "Normal" desktop Linux systems that have been installed properly on a PC or Laptop hard drive will not let you run random programs living on random removable media (thumb & optical drives). The "default" mount options include "noexec"... This prevents someone from breaking your system by offering a "trogan horse" program on such media or using a break-in program to attack your computer. > > David C > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > -- 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. 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