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[Brendan Coupe]

You can try using my build scripts. I've copied the text from my email
about them which I first sent to the mailing list in January. I
compile KMM every week or two using them it's so easy to do. Make sure
you have zenity installed, it's handles the simple GUI interface. I
run these from /usr/local/src/kmm.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thomas, let me know if there is something I can do to make my scripts
work with other languages.

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I have been running my own scripts to compile, install and uninstall
KMM since back in the cvs days. I have recently updated them to make
them more user friendly, interactive and generic. I will post the
latest versions of the scripts on Google Drive for any interested
users to try out. Your feedback is welcome. The first public version
can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sfo2HgzaCCSb3d7pjl3To50yoQT5BaXM

The basic steps are:

0) Read the README.txt file
1) Remove any version of KMM that you installed another way before
using running step 4. Step 3 is safe with an installed version of KMM.
2) Do your best to get the dependencies installed (hints in the
README.txt file, this is the hard part).
3) Run the BuildKMM.sh script, this does not install anything. If it
does not get to 100% it failed. Back to step 2.
4) Run the InstallKMM.sh script, this does install KMM. Don't run this
unless step 3 is successful.
5) Repeat steps 3 & 4 in order to move to a newer (or older) version
of KMM or between branches and/or releases.
6) Run the RemoveKMMBuilds.sh script to remove build directories of
builds you never plan to use again.
7) Run the UninstallKMM.sh script to Uninstall the currently installed
build that was installed with these scripts. This should be done
before reinstalling from any other source, such as your package
manager.

To be clear, Uninstalled means uninstalling KMM from your system.
Remove means remove the build folders containing compiled versions you
never plan to install again. Never remove the installed version build
folder (should be impossible with the script). I install from source
every week or two so the old build directories can pile up. All builds
are clean builds with full source download. These scripts do not have
any provisions for updating an existing source tree fro git.

If you want to use these scripts to install an official KMM release
just download the release source code (kmymoney-5.0.2.tar.xz) and put
it in your build directory and run BuildKMM.sh.

I have run all of the scripts many times on 3 clean systems and have
fixed all of the bugs that I could find and added as many
troubleshooting messages as I could to help you understand what went
wrong. Start with the README.txt file, modify the ScriptsKMM.conf file
as needed. Then try to build and install. I know there are probably a
lot of errors that I did not run into so please help me find and fix
them.

Please submit any questions to the KMM developer mailing list with the
above subject. If you have dependency issues please submit them to the
mailing list with a different subject. The developers have helped me
solve dependency problems many times.

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Brendan Coupe