GnuCash-2.4.11

Installation of GnuCash

Install GnuCash by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../gnucash-2.4.11-guile-2_fixes-1.patch &&

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
            --disable-dbi           \
            --with-html-engine=webkit &&
make

If you wish to create the API documentation in HTML format, you must have Doxygen-1.8.4 and Graphviz-2.30.1 installed, then issue:

make doc

If you wish to create the API Design Guide in several formats, you must have texlive-20120701 installed and issue:

make -C src/doc/design html pdf ps

The test suite is currently broken due to problems with Guile 2.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you want to install the Help documentation system, you must have Yelp-3.6.2 and Rarian-0.8.1 installed in order to view the Help documents. Unpack the additional tarball, change into the gnucash-docs-2.4.1 source directory and issue the following commands as an unprivileged user:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

HTML versions of the Users Guide can be created if the DocBook XML tools are installed (libxslt-1.1.28, docbook-xml-4.5 and docbook-xsl-1.77.1). A PDF version of the Users Guide can be created if you have DocBook-utils-0.6.14, and fop-1.1 installed. Issue the following commands to create the documentation:

make -C guide html &&
make -C guide pdf

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you built the Users Guide, install it as the root user:

mkdir -p                           /usr/share/doc/gnucash-2.4.1 &&
cp -v -R guide/C/gnucash-guide/*   /usr/share/doc/gnucash-2.4.1 &&
cp -v    guide/C/gnucash-guide.pdf /usr/share/doc/gnucash-2.4.1