unable to create investment

[Jack]

On 07/21/2018 05:23 AM, Jochen Schmid wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 07:54:21AM +0200, you wrote:
>
>> please make sure to always send responses to the list so that others benefit from this conversation as well.
> sorry, I noticed it a second too late.
>
>> Not really, this is working. For some reason, KMyMoney cannot find the plugins or they are not activated. Did you install KMyMoney in your KDE system tree? Anything else might be a bit of trouble. On my openSUSE system I need to set
>>
>>    CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX  to /usr    and
>>    KDE_INSTALL_PLUGINDIR to /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins
> In Ubuntu 18.04 it's /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins
>
> I have had the prefix set to /usr/local to avoid conflicts with the
> distro version of kmymoney.
>
> Prefix /usr finally worked. Adding new investments works.
>
> Thank you for your help.
It is also possible to set QT_PLUGIN_PATH to point to the actual 
location of the plugins.  The seems to be the main (but not only) 
change/setting to run KMM from the install dir for testing without 
messing with a system installed version.

Jack