Very cool! I didn't know of portableapps.com, but here's the English entry for GnuCash. Looks like it's based on the latest version too.
https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Christoph R < subscriptions+lis...@rohland.net> wrote: > 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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