Hi Brad, Once you have the sources you can use git to checkout any previous version you want. To see the tagged versions, in a terminal type:
git tag The last 10 lines show: 4.2-post-string-freeze 4.3 4.3-string-freeze 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.8a gnucash-1-9-0 So, if you want version 4.8a, you can do: git checkout -b 4.8a 4.8a This will checkout the version tagged 4.8a, and create a new branch called 4.8a. Once you have that, you can just change to the build directory and run the cmake and make commands. I have selected 4.8a, if you want version 4.8 instead, just use 4.8 instead of 4.8a in the git checkout. Note, once you have the source code, you don't need to run the whole script again to get a new version. When there is a new release, e.g. 4.9 or 5.0, or 5.1, or whatever, you can just: git checkout maint git pull to get the latest commits, then: git checkout -b 5.0 5.0 (for example) to get that version. Here is the script again, with the git checkout command added (near the end): ==== build-gnucash.sh ==== ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else. SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source" BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build" sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt-get install build-essential ## This is one long line sudo apt install git make cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev gettext swig guile-3.0-dev libofx-dev xsltproc libboost-all-dev libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-sqlite3 libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev gwenhywfar-tools libgwengui-gtk3-dev # Only use the next 2 lines if you have not installed [[Google_Test | Google Test]] already. sudo apt install libgtest-dev # >=1.7.0 sudo apt install google-mock # 1.8.0 installs googlemock in a subdirectory of gtest mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR mkdir -p $BUILDDIR ## Clone gnucash source from git, if it is not already there [ ! -d $SOURCEDIR/gnucash ] && git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR ## Checkout version 4.8a git checkout -b 4.8a 4.8a cd $BUILDDIR cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/gnucash $SOURCEDIR make ==== end of script ==== David On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 22:07, brad <bradha...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > David, Will your script build the latest stable release? If not what > do I change to do that? > > On 10/2/21 11:48 AM, david whiting wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > > > On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 07:11, Jeff <beastmaster...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > >> I would settle for a copy of "Building the Newest Version of GNC for > >> Dummies Course" book. > > Others have shown you that you can use flatpak to get the latest > > version, but if you do want to build from source I have found that the > > following works on Ubuntu 20.04. I have also attached it as a script. > > This clones the source from git and by default builds the maintenance > > version. The versions are tagged, so you can use git to checkout a > > different version and build that if you want, e.g. you could build 4.8 > > rather than maint. > > > > ==== build-gnucash.sh ==== > > > > ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else. > > SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source" > > BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build" > > > > sudo apt update > > sudo apt upgrade > > > > sudo apt-get install build-essential > > ## This is one long line > > sudo apt install git make cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev > > libxslt1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev gettext swig guile-3.0-dev > > libofx-dev xsltproc libboost-all-dev libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-sqlite3 > > libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev > > gwenhywfar-tools libgwengui-gtk3-dev > > > > # Only use the next 2 lines if you have not installed [[Google_Test | > > Google Test]] already. > > sudo apt install libgtest-dev # >=1.7.0 > > sudo apt install google-mock # 1.8.0 installs > > googlemock in a subdirectory of gtest > > > > mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR > > mkdir -p $BUILDDIR > > > > ## Clone gnucash source from git, if it is not already there > > [ ! -d $SOURCEDIR/gnucash ] && git clone > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR > > > > cd $BUILDDIR > > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/gnucash $SOURCEDIR > > > > make > > > > ==== end of script ==== > > > > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. -- David Whiting _______________________________________________ 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. 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