There are some threads on issues building 3.8 on 18.04. I’m pretty sure the debs floating on the list are built for that case. I had some issues myself with a 3.7 and/or 3.8 build that involved conflicting dependencies. I’ve since moved on to 19.10 as a simpler solution.
Regards, Adrien > On Mar 24, 2020 w13d84, at 10:03 AM, Michael Hendry > <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 24 Mar 2020, at 01:20, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This may indicate a Mac .app issue -- maybe it doesn't like being modified. >> For that matter it may be much safer to play on a Linux VM and downloading >> the sources instead. >> Alternatively try the config-user.scm method on >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports > > Problem resolved - I thought I’d dragged-and-dropped the new scheme file into > a temporary directory, but it turned out that I’d created an alias in the > latter, and left the original in situ. > > Much chastened, I shall be more careful to keep my experiments separate from > the real world! > > > I have an Ubuntu 18.04 VM on my Mac, but the most recent version of GnuCash > available through the Ubuntu Software Manager is 2.6.19. > > Does anyone know if I have to compile from source to get 3.8? > > (I’ll also have to work out how my drag-and-drop created an alias) > > Michael _______________________________________________ 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.
