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Revision as of 11:19, 13 January 2006

Gnucash SVN installation on Gentoo

This is written for people who do not know gentoos mechanism, how you can install inofficial ebuilds, so if you know about PORTDIR_OVERLAY things, you will also know which steps to skip. (On the other hand you can make this steps twice, it doesn't matter. ;-))

Note that this installation will destroy any gnucash-1.8.x versions, because of overwriting some files especially the gnucash binary in /usr/bin/gnucash, so you simply can deinstall gnucash-1.8.x.

If you need support for installing both, please tell me, I can figure out what to do to have them both.

Do the following as root:

1. Create the directory for gnucash-svn ebuild and change into it.

 mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-office/gnucash-svn
 cd /usr/local/portage/app-office/gnucash-svn

2. Download the ebuild from the gentoo bugs.

 wget http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=76978 -O gnucash-svn-20060112.ebuild

The version number for now does not say which version of svn you install, you install always the current version available via svn. 3. Create digest

 ebuild gnucash-svn-20060112.ebuild digest

4. Now you have the ebuild, so you need to make portage to use it, if you havent done before:

 echo "PORTDIR_OVERLAY=\"/usr/local/portage\"" >> /etc/make.conf

or you can edit the file with any editor to set this variable.

Thats all.

Oh, wait a moment. You have now the ebuild for gnucash-svn. Any install and update will be done with

 emerge gnucash-svn

At the first usage it will install gnucashs currently svn version. There are updates nearly every day, so if you need the last you simply rerun

 emerge gnucash-svn

This keeps you up to date.

enjoy! ;-)

- Martin <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at>