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Timon timon-kmymoney at fiddike.com
Thu Sep 19 22:00:56 BST 2019


Hi Brendan,

thank you! :-)

I used you scripts, which helped me move forward quite a bit. II got
stuck after a couple of hours. See my recent request on the developers
list for details.

Cheers,

Timon

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On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 11:24 -0600, Brendan Coupe wrote:
> 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.
> 
> =====================================================================
> ========================
> 
> 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.
> 
> ----
> Brendan Coupe



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