Hi John, even if you gave up on the topic I would like to point you to: https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/gnucash_portable <https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/gnucash_portable>.
I did not use it for a while but it worked for me nicely with an older version. Cheers, Christoph > Am 15.07.2017 um 21:31 schrieb John Wright <minimudd...@gmail.com>: > > David, > > I have pretty much given up on that idea, as you said its a very complex > approach, and to be honest, probably not worth the time for the benefit. I > saw the space used on the hard drive, and yes I do have enough space for > that, so I think I will store the data on the flash drive and run the app > from the hard drive. As you said, that's a pretty trivial thing to do and > won't take a lot of time. > > Thanks. > > John > > > On 07/15/2017 12:19 AM, David T. wrote: >> John, >> >> I seem to have misunderstood. I thought you said you were only trying to >> store the data file on the flash drive; this sounds like you are trying to >> store the entire application there. >> >> Storing the data file is trivial, but trying to load the entire application >> is another story. Since I am not a Linux guy, I will defer to the comments >> made here by the others about the difficulties of running an application >> from removable storage. >> >> Gnucash on my mac takes a total of about 175Mb of space. Surely that could >> fit in the limited space available to you? If that is still a stretch, you >> can probably delete some of the different language help files; the Japanese >> docs especially eat up a lot of space. >> >> David >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:08, John Wright >> <minimudd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> David, >> >> Yes, in fact I have gotten the error several times. My first >> attempt at running gnucash from a flash drive went this way. >> Installed it on the hard drive, then moved all the gnucash files >> (except libs) to flash drive, added a .desktop file to >> user/share/applications. That worked ok, but I couldn't find the >> icon, and all the lib files were still on the hard drive. >> >> The reason I want to do this is that the laptop I just purchased >> has a 15GB m-stat sshd. So I really don't have a lot of room to >> play with. Sort of a throwback to the days when everything we ran >> was stored on floppy drives and either a very small hard drive or >> no hard drive at all. Of course that was way before the internet. >> >> John >> >> >> On 07/14/2017 01:20 PM, David wrote: >>> >>> I guess it's lucky that John only wants to load his data from the >>> flash drive, then. >>> >>> John, be aware that GnuCash always tries to load the last file it >>> had open; if the folder isn't available when you fire it up, you >>> will receive an error. Just be sure the USB stick is inserted and >>> mounted before you start GC, and you should be fine. >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> *From:* David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >>> <mailto:david.carlson....@gmail.com> >>> *Sent:* Fri Jul 14 22:00:33 GMT+05:00 2017 >>> *To:* Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> >>> <mailto:hel...@deepsoft.com> >>> *Cc:* "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" >>> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >>> <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org>, John Wright >>> <minimudd...@gmail.com> <mailto:minimudd...@gmail.com> >>> *Subject:* Re: Flash Drive >>> >>> 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 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> >>> <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 >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> <mailto: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 >>> <mailto:hel...@deepsoft.com> -- Webhosting Services > > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> <mailto: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. > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org >>> <mailto: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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