[GNC-dev] Debian files

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 22, 2019, at 7:01 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> Looking for someone more knowledgeable than I.  Where did I go wrong?
> 
> I uninstalled my locally built gnucash (sudo make uninstall) and cleaned
> the system (sudo apt autoremove) then started with these debian files:
> 

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> 
> --> whereis gnucash
> gnucash: /etc/gnucash /usr/local/etc/gnucash /usr/local/lib/gnucash
> 
> --> gnucash
> 
> Command 'gnucash' not found, but can be installed with:
> 
> sudo apt install gnucash
> 
> --> sudo apt install gnucash
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree      
> Reading state information... Done
> gnucash is already the newest version (1:3.4).
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> SMB: At this point I decided to remove the packages and see if my local
> build would install and run

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>  
> SMB: And gnucash works.  So why didn't installing the debian package work?

It appears from the dump that it didn’t complete installing because the Finance::Quote dependencies (which should be optional) and the jqplot dependency (needed for making chart reports, not optional) weren’t installed, but apt marked it as installed anyway. If you really care you could uninstall and reinstall the “official” gnucash.deb and see if it works. If it doesn’t then it would seem that something’s messed up and you should confer with Dimitry to figure out what it is.

Regards,
John Ralls