On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 01:54:30PM -0600, boldstripe wrote: > Thanks for the explanation, David. I think I may have been a bit over-zealous > in my sudo use at the first stages of the procedure; that is perhaps what > caused the permissions issue when I did not 'sudo' later on. > > I also run Gnucash inside Debian Buster virtual machines on both my Mac and > Windows machines (as well as the native apps), so at some stage I will have > to repeat this build operation there. When I do, I will try and be more > careful about my sudo use and see if I can build without problems; I'll > report back in due course. Now I know a bit more about how it should go, I > would also like to see how much can be done without resort to > buster-backports. Because these are virtual machines, which I can clone > (backup) before I start, it will be a bit easier to experiment with. > > Buster has been out more than six months now and I may be ready soon for an > upgrade to Bullseye ('testing' in Debian) soon. By then v3.8 may have > reached the repository with a bit of luck. > > A big thank you to whoever updated the 'Building on Linux' wiki > documentation, which was much improved over the last time I tried to build > Gnucash myself.
Amen! I'm helping my wifeto move off Win7 (she won't use Win10) to ubuntu, and I set her up with 18.04 Mate. I did a build of 3.8 on her new installation t'other day and it went with no trouble at all, except I had to tell cmake not to try to build the sql parts. And that was no biggie. She doesn't use many of the advanced features, so I don't expect her to have big problems...I built her a 3.1 (on Centos) back when it was new and she had no issues with it either so I don't expect any on 3.8 either. Thanks to the hard-working Gnucash team! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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.