[kmymoney] [Bug 450016] Attempting KMyMoney 5.0.8 "Currencies" Maintenance, Application Crash

[Walter Ogelsby]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450016

--- Comment #9 from Walter Ogelsby <walt at wogelsby.com> ---
(In reply to Jack from comment #5)
> Walter,
> 
> An appimage absolutely does NOT run in the cloud.  It is a comletely
> self-contained version of the program.  It has all of the required libraries
> and such built in, so it can successfully run on (almost) any Linux
> distribution.  That's why all you have to do is download it and make it
> executable.  It does not "install" in the usual sense, because the distro's
> package manager does not need to take care of any dependencies and such. 
> The name of a particular Linux distro being part of the name of the appimage
> files is just a side effect of how the Build Factory works.
> Instructions on how to actually build (compile) your own version of KMyMoney
> were removed from the handbook some time ago for many KDE applications.  I
> would have to hunt for any specific version, but it's generic process of
> getting the source, doing ./configure, and finally make.  Getting the source
> depends on whether you want to compile a released version (download a
> tarball) or a developer version (use git).  There are lots of options, and
> you also need to be careful not to confuse your distros package manager.
> For now, I think the appimage should be fine for  you.
> 
> Jack

Jack, very helpful, thank you.  AppImage may be my solution, although,
curiosity drives me to "TRY" Bendan's "Build Scripts"... trying to understand
this old Linux Application environment (hopefully without destroying my system
along the way).

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