If you followed the instructions from the beginning of that page you can run the cmake command literally as it's written down
It tells cmake to prepare a gnucash build based on the sources found in the parent directory (the .. in the command) and to be installed in the .local subdirectory of your user's homedirectory (-DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPEFIX= $HOME/.local). You can choose another final installation destination, but it's recommended you don't use /usr or /usr/local. The first is reserved for packages installed via your package manager, the latter tends to suffer from interference by packages installed in /usr. Anywhere under your home directory is fine and as of 3.1 you could also install under /opt (but in that case the make install step should be run via sudo). Regards, Geert Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 02:23:38 CEST schreef Dennis Powless: > Any ideas or help on building gnucash. > > Or, should I create a new thread? > > D > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Dennis Powless <claven...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Directions found here: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04 > > > > I'm not sure I follow the directions ..... > > I navigate to the folder that contains gnucash-3.1 (which is in the > > home/dennis/applications folder) by cd gnucash-3.1 > > > > > > I'm not sure about the line...... cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREPFIX do I > > type all that in terminal or do I have to define it with the items in the > > < >? > > > > I don't follow the setAdd $HOME/.local/bin to $PATH > > > > Thanks > > > > Dennis _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
