Gnucash versions 2.2.9 and 2.4.10 broken in Debian Squeeze

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:43:01 +0700 Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:

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> On 2013-01-10 16:53, Colin Law wrote:
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> > On 10 January 2013 08:22, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
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> >> Can anyone suggest a livecd image which Ken could get and dual boot
> >> with which already has a working gnucash?
> > 
> > Ubuntu 12.10 includes a fully working gnucash (2.4.11) and should dual
> > boot with debian with no problems.
> 
> I downloaded from the Ubuntu site file ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso and
> managed to write it to a USB stick.  Then I changed the BIOS in my
> laptop, a Lenovo R61 which allows booting from a USB stick disguised as
> either a HDD or a CDROM, and which has Debian Squeeze installed.  The
> machine knew that there was something on the USB/CDROM, but whatever it
> was it cound not boot from it.

You have to burn the ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso file to a CD-ROM.  I
don't think you cannot put it on a USB stick and boot it from there! 
(CD-ROM booting is *different* from USB stick booting.) I believe the
ubuntu-12.10-alternitive-i386.iso file has the means of booting /
installing from USB (or other ways, including PXE).

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> Examination of the USB/CDROM revealed a number of directories with files
> in them, but only one file outside of those directories which looked
> like something remotely bootable.  It was a XXX.exe file.  XXX
> represents the three letters in the file name which I no longer
> remember.  In any event, since any file ending with .exe is a Microsoft
> executable file, it would appear that Ubuntu 12.10 can only be live
> installed on a machine which already has installed in it a Microsoft OS.

This is a 'hack' to allow booting the (live) CD-ROM image from under
MS-Windows.

> 
> Several days later, I wanted to document in detail what had happened
> when I tried that Ubuntu live installation by replicating it.  When I
> tried I discovered that the USB/CDROM was no longer readable by the
> laptop.  At this point I gave up.
> 
> The Debian developer responsible for Gnucash tried to replicate my
> segmentation error problem but could not.  He was able to install
> successfully in his Squeeze machine Gnucash 2.4.10-2, the version from
> squeeze-backports.
> 
> The only thing I can think of to do now is wait until I am back in
> Canada from Thailand at the end of April where I have two desktops, one
> with Squeeze installed and the other still with Lenny and see whether
> version of Gnucash in Lenny (2.2.9-10) still works there and whether
> version 2.4.10-2 in the Squeeze machine.
> 
> If they do then the segmentation error may be specific to the Laptop.
> If so my laptop may be failing. I am dependent solely on it while in
> Thailand and can still use it for e-mails, etc.; so I hope will will not
> fail completely until after I am back in Canada.  If however Gnucash is
> broken on either or both of those machines, then ... what?
> 
> In the meantime I have to resort to doing my books manually, and will
> have a massive posting job to do on my return.
> 
> > An 8GB partition for Ubuntu is plenty.
> 
> The following question is now moot, but I will ask it anyway.  Does a
> live installation require use of a separate partition?
> 
> Regards, Ken Heard
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