For a change, I'm providing information instead of asking a question!
Having been driven to gnucash by Intuit's latest bit of moneygrubbing (a forced upgrade of Quicken to continue online access), I tried to install it in HH 8.04. There is in fact a version available as a .deb package via Synaptic (or Adept), but it's somewhat dated. So I decided to go to the source at http://www.gnucash.org, download the source files, and compile and install them.
There's an INSTALL file in the download, which specifies the three steps, assuming you're in the download directory:
Straightforward enough, but the first step kept getting hung up on missing files.
The reason is that gnucash was written as a Gnome application, and the default support for installing Gnome programs in Kubuntu from their source code is somewhat sketchy. The trick in getting past the errors is to have Synaptic (or Adept) also available. Whenever the configurator asks for something, install the dev version of that item using Synaptic or Adept. You'll probably have to do that six or seven times, but if my experience means anything, you'll eventually get to the next step and be able to complete the installation.
Having been driven to gnucash by Intuit's latest bit of moneygrubbing (a forced upgrade of Quicken to continue online access), I tried to install it in HH 8.04. There is in fact a version available as a .deb package via Synaptic (or Adept), but it's somewhat dated. So I decided to go to the source at http://www.gnucash.org, download the source files, and compile and install them.
There's an INSTALL file in the download, which specifies the three steps, assuming you're in the download directory:
Code:
./configure make make_install
The reason is that gnucash was written as a Gnome application, and the default support for installing Gnome programs in Kubuntu from their source code is somewhat sketchy. The trick in getting past the errors is to have Synaptic (or Adept) also available. Whenever the configurator asks for something, install the dev version of that item using Synaptic or Adept. You'll probably have to do that six or seven times, but if my experience means anything, you'll eventually get to the next step and be able to complete the installation.