Compile Guncash

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do I have uninstall first?
> On Apr 6, 2015 9:18 PM, "Dennis Powless" <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 14.04 LTS
>> On Apr 6, 2015 8:01 PM, "Tommy Trussell" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On 6 April 2015 at 19:34, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > > So, I had to reinstall ubuntu and went to install gncash following
>>>> the
>>>> > > directions found at the get deb website, first installing the
>>>> repository
>>>> > > then I ran the code to install gnucash, but I got the 6.x.1 version
>>>> not
>>>> > the
>>>> > > 6.x.6 version....
>>>> >
>>>> > What do you see if, in a terminal, you run
>>>> >
>>>> > apt-cache policy gnucash
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> dennis at dennis-Linux04:~$ apt-cache policy gnucash
>>>>> gnucash:
>>>>>   Installed: 1:2.6.1-2
>>>>>   Candidate: 1:2.6.6-1~getdeb1
>>>>>   Version table:
>>>>>      1:2.6.6-1~getdeb1 0
>>>>>         500 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ trusty-getdeb/apps amd64
>>>>> Packages
>>>>>  *** 1:2.6.1-2 0
>>>>>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64
>>>>> Packages
>>>>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>>>> N: Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
>>>>> '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/'
>>>>> as it has an invalid filename extension
>>>>> N: Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
>>>>> '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/'
>>>>> as it has an invalid filename extension
>>>>> dennis at dennis-Linux04:~$
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The numbers are confusing, but that looks good. You have GnuCash
>>>> version 2.6.6 available and version 2.6.1 installed (both from
>>>> getdeb.net). The latest available from the Ubuntu repository is
>>>> version 2.6.1. If you run
>>>>
>>>> $ apt-get upgrade
>>>>
>>>> your system should install GnuCash 2.6.6.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> One more thought -- since it didn't already do the right thing, are you
>>> running Ubuntu "Trusty" version 14.04, or some other distro or version of
>>> linux? What does the terminal say when you issue the command? (sorry I left
>>> the sudo out before)
>>>
>>> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>>
>>>
no, you don't have to uninstall first.

What does it say in the terminal when you issue the command

$ sudo apt-get upgrade