On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 12:09 PM boldstripe <michael.nab...@wengam.com> wrote:
> Someone helpfully placed .deb packages for Gnucash 3.8 here (today): > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/ > > There are old postings on the mail list that explain how to use these. > Just after I saw this message the other day I successfully downloaded and built the Debian version 3.8b package on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04. I haven't tested it a lot, but after adjusting for some libraries, it does build, install, and run without errors. I presume it should build for Ubuntu derivative distributions, too. I got the following error on the first try: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: libaqbanking-dev (>= 5.99.43) libgwengui-gtk3-dev (>= 4.99.24) SO all I had to do to get the package to build was 1) Created source directory & downloaded packages $ mkdir ~/src/gnucash $ cd ~/src/gnucash $ dget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/gnucash_3.8b-1.dsc 2) Made the usual changes to debian/changelog to indicate a non-maintainer version for Ubuntu $ cd gnucash-3.8b/ $ dch --nmu [Modified the version number to 1:3.8b-1~ubuntu18.04.1 then wrote out the bullet points for my changes] 3) Changed the compiler flags in debian/rules (because of the older compiler in Bionic) $ sed -i 's/export DEB_CXXFLAGS/#export DEB_CXXFLAGS/' debian/rules 4) Changed debian/control lines for the package versions available in Bionic. ,libaqbanking-dev (>= 5.7.8-1) ,libgwengui-gtk3-dev (>= 4.20.0-1) 5) Built it $ dpkg-buildpackage 6) Installed it $ cd .. $ dpkg -i *.deb *.ddeb (I presume the Debian package maintainer specified the more recent package versions to fix particular bugs so I would expect there might be some subtle issues I haven't encountered yet.) P.S.: I know the procedure above is too terse for beginners. I hope to put a more explicit procedure in the wiki soon. ----- > 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 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.
