Installation problem with the latest stable release

[Peter Wilton]

Ah! Does this mean KMyMoney will reappear on the Xubuntu software centre soon? I have just upgraded to Xubuntu 16, whereas the KMyMoney I was using before came from the software centre when I was using Xubuntu 14 and its predecessor.

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> On 24 Sep 2017, at 18:22, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> there is a subtle difference to install software from a software centre and 
> from installing it from source.
> 
> Building from source (that is what you tried) can be a bit tricky at times and 
> involves a bit of knowledge about the process and the tools.
> 
> Since I don't know, which distro you are using and which version of KDE (KDE4 
> or KF5) it uses as base system, I cannot tell you what to do next.
> 
> BTW: 4.6.x is outdated. We are currently working on a 4.8.1 release for KDE4 
> based systems and a separate one for KF5 based systems.
> 
> Hope that helps a bit further.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sonntag, 24. September 2017 17:29:05 CEST Peter Wilton wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've just had to change my laptop. I was using KMyMoney on Xubuntu on my
>> old machine, and I tried to get it from the software centre on my new
>> machine (I think that's how I got it before), but it wasn't there. It
>> was simple to download last time.
>> 
>> I googled KMy Money and found 4.6.4 for KDE Platform 4 on your website.
>> As far as I can understand, I have to follow the instructions on a file
>> called README.cmake (which I note is dated in the text February the 7th,
>> 2009). I got as far as:
>> 
>> cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
>> 
>> ... and I got the error message:
>> 
>> "The source directory "/home/peter" does not appear to contain
>> CMakeLists.txt."
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thank you, and best wishes,
> 
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> 
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