Gentoo

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

For GnuCash 2.0.x with direct connect

Here is what you need:

  1]. Make sure you libofx-0.8.2 or greater installed
  2]. Make sure you have aqbanking-2.2.1 or better with "USE=hbci" installed
  3]. Finally emerge gnucash-2.0.1 or better with "USE= ofx hbci"

The following are some problems you (i did as of Sept. 9 2006) might run into:

• Emerging libofx-0.8.2

This version or better of the package is necessary for direct connect support. As of current speaking (see above) this package is not availabe in gentoo portage. So you will have to use an custom overlay e-build. Do i hear some bitch and moan? Don't worry this is real easy. Here is what you got to do:

  1].  Emerge the current available version of libofx, which currently is libofx-0.8.1-r1
  2].  Create the following directory
       a). $ mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/dev-libs/libofx
  3].  Make portage aware of your overlay directory
       a). $ echo 'PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage' >> /etc/make.conf
  4].  Copy libofx-0.8.1-r1 e-build and patches to new overlay directory
       a). $ cp -R /usr/portage/dev-libs/libofx/libofx-0.8.1-r1.ebuild /usr/local/portage/dev-libs/libofx/libofx-2.0.1.ebuild
  5].  Finally copy any patches (you proboably will not need these but just in case)
       a). $ cp -R /usr/portage/dev-libs/libofx/files/* /usr/local/portage/dev-libs/libofx/files/
  6].  Make a digest
       a). $ ebuild /usr/local/portage/dev-libs/libofx/libofx-2.0.1.ebuild digest

Now edit the ebuild file by running

  $ nano /usr/local/portage/dev-libs/libofx/libofx-2.0.1.ebuild

Look for a line at the top of the file that looks like this (you might not have it)

  inherit utils

If you do comment it out. The line tells the e-build to apply patches, it is highly likely you don't need it (more below).

  #inherit utils

Now look for the src_unpack routine, note it could be a little different, note the last three lines before the brace, that means a patch was applied. The src_unpack routine in my case looked like this.

   src_unpack() {
     unpack ${A}
     # because we redefine docdir in src_install, we need to make sure the
     # dtd's go to the right place, LIBOFX_DTD_DIR
     cd "${S}"/dtd
     sed -i -e 's/$(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/$(DESTDIR)$(LIBOFX_DTD_DIR)/g' \
          Makefile.in
     cd "${S}"
     # bug 116208
     epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-tree.diff
   }

It is highly proboable that the patch is included in the latest software version so, comment out the last three lines.

   src_unpack() {
     unpack ${A}
     # because we redefine docdir in src_install, we need to make sure the
     # dtd's go to the right place, LIBOFX_DTD_DIR
     cd "${S}"/dtd
     sed -i -e 's/$(DESTDIR)$(docdir)/$(DESTDIR)$(LIBOFX_DTD_DIR)/g' \
          Makefile.in
     #cd "${S}"
     # bug 116208
     #epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-tree.diff
   }

Save the e-build file, if you made any changes. NOTE: If you made any changes to the e-build file run the digest command again.

   $ ebuild /usr/local/portage/dev-libs/libofx/libofx-2.0.1.ebuild digest

Now just emerge libofx and you should be upgraded 0.8.2

   $ emerge libofx