upgrade question

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 15 02:08:17 CDT 2003


Did guppi get updated with your install?

-derek

"Charles M. Gajan" <charlesgajan at earthlink.net> writes:

> Thank you for the help.  I had a pretty good idea that this would be the
> case, but I would have been remiss not to ask and later find out I could
> have made a simple link to repair it.  
> 
> After all rightly or wrongly since I was upgrading a system that was
> program dependency sound would maintain those relationships if a program
> (in this case gnucash, but also xine and others) had a more advanced
> version).  Oh well.  
> 
> I uninstalled gnucash, gnucash-devel, gnucash-ofx, and gnucash-docs
> (from 1.8.0 because that is what rpm told me to do).  I then installed
> Bill Nottingham's package, then reran update-finance-quote as gnucash
> told me to.  Everything then worked pretty well except the scatter plot
> reports.  My pie chart works, and the balance sheet works, but the
> scatter plots based on the price database fails with: "Report error An
> error occurred while running the report."  
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thanks again,
> Chas
> 
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 17:02, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > "Charles M. Gajan" <charlesgajan at earthlink.net> writes:
> > 
> > > I have been following the posts concerning RH 9 and version
> > > gnucash-1.8.2.  My question is that I had been running
> > > gnucash-1.8.2-1.RH7.3 on RH 7.3 and then upgraded to RH 9.  GnuCash did
> > > not start, so I checked to see if it was still installed:
> > 
> > Gnucash must be compiled for your specific release of Red Hat.
> > GnuCash compiled for RH7.3 will not work on RH8 or RH9.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > Can I create a link to one?  If so might anyone know which one? Am I
> > > anywhere close to the problem?
> > 
> > No.  You need to upgrade to gnucash specifically compiled for RH9.
> > 
> > > Otherwise, should I uninstall the three rpms that I upgraded with on RH
> > > 7.3 and install the package gnucash-1.8.2-0.9.i386.rpm I downloaded Bill
> > > Nottingham's link?
> > 
> > Yes, this is what you should do.  Indeed, this is what you HAVE to do.
> > 
> > > Any help will be most appreciated.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chas 
> > 
> > -derek
> -- 
> Charles M. Gajan <charlesgajan at earthlink.net>
> 

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