On 12/24/21 8:30 AM, david whiting wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 09:11, Jeff <beastmaster...@hotmail.com> wrote:
[...]
But it appears I am not even a day old computer programmer, after 40
plus years of coding. For the life of me I cannot get the 4.9 code and
tools for Ubuntu to install. I've followed every link I can find, even
those that David Cousins provided and I still cannot get the source or
dependencies to install or download.
Would someone please list for me in baby steps howto download and build
GNC 4.9 for Ubuntu?
Hi Jeff,
The script below will build version 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I have
verified this on a clean installation of Ubuntu.
One thing that tripped me up a few times is remembering to tick
"Source Code" in the Software And Updates dialogue. If you don't do
this, it will fail.
Please note that I have used -y with apt install so it will install
and build without asking.
I will try to get around to putting this in the wiki to make it easier
for people to find.
=== build.sh ===
## Ubuntu 20.04
## In "Software and Updates":
## Tick "Source code"
## Tick "Community-maintained free and open-source software (Universe)"
## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else.
SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source"
BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build"
## Change this if you want to install it somewhere else.
INSTALLDIR=/opt/gnucash
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y install git
sudo apt -y build-dep gnucash
## To build series 4 of gnucash on Ubuntu 20.04
sudo apt -y install libboost-program-options1.71-dev
mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR
mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
## Clone gnucash source from git
git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR
## Checkout version 4.9
cd $SOURCEDIR
git checkout -b 4.9 4.9
cd $BUILDDIR
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALLDIR $SOURCEDIR
make
=== End of build.sh ===
Fingers-crossed this will work for you.
David
I executed the above script but it did not build an executable version
of GNC. Correction, it built an executable program, that immediately
started spouting error messages then even faster closed its terminal window.
A couple of posts remind to remember to "tick Source Code in the
Software And Updates dialogue" or the script would not work. They fail
to mention for what PPA.
What PPA's do I need for GNC? (on Ubuntu 20.04LTS)
The desktop icon file was also a complete gremlin. That issue may
resolve itself once I can successfully build a live, healthy, vivacious,
running version of 4.9 from source.
As of now I am renaming the thread from "how to remove both GNC 4.2 and
Flathub version 4.8 so can upgrade to 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04LTS" to "Idiots
guide to building GNC 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04LTS" as we have moved way past
removing 4.2 and Flathub 4.8. Right now I feel like a CSC 101 student
in a CSC 401 class, even though I went to CSC 640 in college and 880 in
the real world, yet I cannot successfully build GNC. Both irritating
and humiliating.
Somewhere I am overlooking that one simple first year programmers error.
--
--JEffrey Black M.B.A.
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