Ok,
Did not know that, thanks.
On 07/14/2017 01:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
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
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