Hi Dennis, I updated the BuildUbuntu16.04 page after having similar problems while building Gnucash3.0. My apologies for any errors and lack of clarity in a few areas and thanks for reporting the problems. I will edit the page to try and make some issues clearer as I or other users uncover my mistakes.
$HOME is usually defined in Ubuntu and Linux Mint distributions as /home/<user> where <user> is the logged in user name. If you want to install in $HOME/.local/ you may need to check that these directories $HOME/.local/bin, $HOME/.local/etc, $HOME/.local/lib, $HOME/.local/share exist. This was John Ralls preference for an install for a single user to avoid creating bin, etc, lib and share directories directly in the users home directories. The use of a hidden directory avoids these appearing in by default and cluttering up your file browser (unless you enable hidden directories). The correct option switch for Cmake is -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local. My understanding is that the default value for this switch is /usr/local and if you use cmake without the switch at all that is where it will install. This along with /opt is the location most Linux distributors place their packaged versions of applications like GnuCash in. In these locations GnuCash would be available to all users with accounts on the computer and not just the user installing it, but this requires administrator privileges during installation. The distributors versions are often considerably out of date which is the primary reason for building GnuCash yourself. If you use the Software Manager or apt to install the Ubuntu distribution version for example, it will overwrite your up to date built version if it is in this location. I use this location, but I take care not to install the packaged version from Linux MInt. (I have done so in the past while getting more familiar with Linux, distributions , repositories etc.). I have tried to fix the issues with the build instructions. I would appreciate any comment on the changes to see if they have clarified the issues you had. Cheers David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
