Thank you very much for the information. It seems the problem was that I had not installed the libdbd-mysql package. I did have the libdbi but not the mysql package. I also did not have the libdbd packages for pgsql or sqlite3 ... but I do now! and they now show up in gnucash as options for the 'save as' Data Format.
The only problem I have now is when I try to save a larger database (about 3.1M in XML) I get an error. It seems to work OK with a smaller database. The error just says, "An error occurred while processing mysql://gord@localhost/gnucash." I tried starting gnucash with the --debug option but I did not get any error messages other than the one in the gui. On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 4:52 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > It will depend on whether you have installed for the distributions > repositories using their software manager or whether you have installed a > flatpak version either from the repository or the GnuCash website. > > The flatpak versions often require specific permissions granted so they can > access the computer's peripherals as they are a protected sandbox setup. > If > you search the mailing list archives you will find more info on how to do > this. If it is a flatpak version this may be the problem rather than > GnuCash > itself although I would still expect the database options to appear in the > File -Save As dialogue but fail on the attempt to write to the database. > > That may indicate that it has been built without the basic libdbi support. > The libddi-mysql library is a run time library (similar libraries for > PostGRES and SQlite3) which has to be present at runtime. You can check > that the libraries are loaded using the command "dpkg -l |grep libdb" in a > terminal which should list all the related installed packages. My Linux > MInt > 20.3 system has all three libdbd-mysql, libdbd-pgsql and libdbd-sqlite3 > installed as well as the libdbi library (I also have the development header > file libdbi-dev as I build GnuCash from the tarball on the website). > > If you can let us know which Linux distribution and version number and the > GnuCash version which is installed and how you installed it (software > Manager, apt, or other) we may be able to give more specific advice. > Usually > the versions maintained by the distribution repositories are built with all > the normal default build options which should include the database > backends. > > Building from scratch is a possibility if all else fails. See > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux for detailed instructions > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
