(SOLVED) gnucash not compatible ubuntu 11.04 and ubuntu 11.10

[John Ralls]

On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Colin Law wrote:

> On 18 October 2011 16:44, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>> On 18/10/2011 15:58, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> 
>>> John Ralls<jralls at ceridwen.us>  writes:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Derek's already filed a bug because make check fails if you configure
>>>> with --enable-dbi but don't have libdbd-sqlite3 and libsqlite3 to test
>>>> with. I'll have a look at a configure check for those, and change the
>>>> dependency list in README.dependencies. Beyond that, though, we have
>>>> no control over what the distro packagers actually set as
>>>> dependencies.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I feel that the File ->  Open code shouldn't fail with an error just
>>> because the SQLite backend isn't available.  The code should be able to
>>> differentiate a failure due to the backend not being available from a
>>> failure that the backend wont handle the file.
>>> 
>>> So the fact that the code is non-deterministic isn't itself a bug.  How
>>> the non-determinism is handled, *that* should be considered a bug.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -derek
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Good day gentlemen/ladies,
>> 
>> I feel horrible/ashamed for all the noise I created on this list.
>> I made a "** silly **" mistake.
>> I have been doing this many times moving from new release to new release and
>> other linux flavours and it works every time.
>> 
>> I installed the same cd to another spare usb external drive to try and mimic
>> what I did.
>> 
>> Daily save my home directory to a spare external usb backup drive.
>> In my case the gnucash directory is named " Gnucash " that has been copied
>> to many linux versions.
>> 
>> The following steps... (works every time if done correctly)
>> 
>> 1-  Copy " Gnucash " directory to new installation home directory.
>> 2-  Run gnucash.
>> 3-  Cancel tips
>> 4-  Do NOT create new set.
>> 5-  NO to welcome dialog.
>> 6-  Close tips of day
>> 7-  File -> Open
>> 8-  Click on " Gnucash " directory.
>> 9-  Click on Open   (**  Here is the mistake **)
>> 10-  No suitable backend ///// for file /home/johan/Gnucash
> 
> Now I think that *is* a bug, or at least a deficiency.  GC should be
> clever enough to realise that you are trying to open a directory and
> should either prevent it or show an appropriate error.

Yup. Should be easy enough, too.

Regards,
John Ralls