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[Brendan Coupe]

Glad to hear that they helped.

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Brendan Coupe

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 3:01 PM Timon <timon-kmymoney at fiddike.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> Timon Fiddike
>
> --
> https://agile.coach
>
>
>
> 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
>