Upgrading Question

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By "grayed out" I am referring to Synaptic gnucash displaying 2.6.7
> (current) and the upgrade 2.6.9. There is no way to install.  There is an
> explanation mark in the area that would normally be clicked to do the
> upgrade.
>
> I previously uninstalled the getdeb installation.  When I reinstalled it,
> there is a newer version (vivid).  I don't remember what the previous
> version was.  I just completed an upgrade to 17.2 and removed getdeb.  I
> believe it GC can be upgraded if I first uninstall the current version.
>
> As far as repos, I had to change the location of trusty because it was
> pointing to a down website. I think if I had the previous version of
> getdeb, I would have a valid update.
>
> I have "update manager" running in my main panel and no updates have been
> displayed.
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
>
> On 10/11/2015 05:38 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am running Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca) and GC 2.6.7.  I have installed
>> getdeb.net to add the repository for GC 2.6.9.  Since GC is now grayed
>> out, does this mean I have to uninstall GC 2.6.7 first?
>>
>
> 1) What do you mean "grayed out"? In a dock or a menu somewhere? It MAY
> mean the new version of the application is installed in a different
> location from the previous version of the application. How did you install
> 2.6.7? If you installed using a .deb package, normally you do not need to
> uninstall first. However if you installed it another way, you may need to
> uninstall the old one first.
>
> 2) Did the GetDeb people update the application or their site to work on
> Mint? (The site is meant to work with Ubuntu and Debian.) If they have not,
> you may need to manually edit the apt configuration.
>
> What do you see when you open a terminal and type this command:
>
> sudo apt-get update
>
>
> If you see errors saying apt cannot locate the server, you may need to
> update the configuration. See the recent discussion for the 2.6.8 release.
> The thread started in September but look at the information in these two
> messages, and the ones around them:
>
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2015-September/062186.html
>
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2015-October/062198.html
>
>
>
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I'll ask again-- do you see any errors when you open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get update