Installing 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 27 October 2013 15:06:14 Colin Law wrote:
> On 27 October 2013 14:35, Jon Dallara <jondallara at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks.  I think that you might want to look at the Ubuntu apt-get
> > package then because apt-get was the original installation method.
> > I've been using the stable version installed through Software
> > Center (apt-get) up until now, so all the /usr entries are from the
> > original install of 2.4.
> Jon, I think maybe you misunderstand, or I do.  The point is that it
> is not a good idea to install your own version into the same location
> that apt-get uses, otherwise confusion can ensue.  It is best to
> install it to a different location, it does not matter where really.
> If you want to do that however it is entirely up to you, just set
> --prefix to wherever you want.  I usually put it in a folder
> indicating the version number so that I can keep track of which
> version is which in case I have multiple versions at once, for example
> the current release and the development version.
> 
> Colin

And at the same time rembember to remove all traces of your own gnucash build from /usr/local 
(if you haven't removed your build directory, you can do this with make uninstall).

If not, this installation in /usr/local will continue to break the apt-get installed version in /usr.

Geert