Revision as of 02:09, 10 September 2006

Options

There are 5 options for running gnucash on Gentoo:

• 2.0.1 : official portage unstable ebuild with direct connect
• 1.8.x : official portage stable ebuild
• 1.9.x : non-portage, overlay-able, ebuild of the development releases. See Bug#122337.
• svn-ebuild : non-portage, overlay-able, ebuild which pulls from SVN. See Bug#118862.
• svn, direct : just build and install yourself, independent of portage

If you're unsure which you want, then you want either the 1.8.x stable version or the 1.9.x development/unstable version, and you probably want the latter.

Quickstart

 $ cd «your portage overlay dir»
 $ mkdir -p app-office/gnucash
 $ cd app-office/gnucash
 $ wget http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk/packaging/gnucash-1.9.x.ebuild -O gnucash-1.9.2.ebuild
 $ ebuild gnucash-1.9.2.ebuild digest
 $ emerge =gnucash-1.9.2

Notes

If you're unfamiliar with how to setup an portage overlay, see the Gentoo Handbook's section on adding unoffical ebuilds.

The 1.9.x and svn ebuilds use the same ebuild script, which changes its behavior based on the package name ("gnucash" or "gnucash-svn").

The 1.9.x ebuild DEPENDs on the currently (2006-03-06) keyworded x11-libs/goffice ebuild, which itself depends on a masked gnome-extra/libgsf ebuild. As the gnucash ebuild it itself keyworded ~x86 (and ~amd64), you'll need to add all 3 to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file:

   =app-office/gnucash-1.9.2 ~x86
   =x11-libs/goffice-0.1.0 ~x86
   =gnome-extra/libgsf-1.13.3 ~x86