I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive
and installing gnucash on that. I could also install all my other apps
as well and not use my hard drive at all. Talk about a throw back to
the dark ages.
John
On 07/14/2017 12:00 PM, David Carlson 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.
David C
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com
<mailto:hel...@deepsoft.com>> wrote:
At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com
<mailto:clan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the
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> On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimudd...@gmail.com
<mailto: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
<mailto: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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