Gnucash Tutorial

[Derek Atkins]

You skipped the most important piece of information..   What command
did you use to install the gnucash-docs package?

-derek

Quoting Kiley Barraclough <k_barraclough at yahoo.com>:

> I just installed gnucash2, opened it for the first time and selected 
> the tutorial for new users option.  It said docs were not installed, 
> so I tried to install them and got the failure below.
>
> Writing control file...
> Writing package script postinst...
> Writing package script prerm...
> dpkg-deb -b root-gnucash-dev-1.8.12-11 
> /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/gnome
> dpkg-deb: building package `gnucash-dev' in 
> `/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/gnome/gnucash-dev_1.8.12-11_darwin-i386.deb'.
> Removing runtime build-lock...
> Removing build-lock package...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-gnucash-1.8.12-11
> (Reading database ... 56241 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing fink-buildlock-gnucash-1.8.12-11 ...
> Reading buildlock packages...
> Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies!
>
> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be able to
> fix things by running:
>
>  fink scanpackages
>  sudo apt-get update
>  sudo apt-get install gnucash-dev=1.8.12-11 gnucash=1.8.12-11
>
> Updating the list of locally available binary packages.
> Scanning dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386
> New package: 
> dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/gnome/gnucash-dev_1.8.12-11_darwin-i386.deb
> New package: 
> dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/gnome/gnucash-ofx_1.8.12-11_darwin-i386.deb
> New package: 
> dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/gnome/gnucash_1.8.12-11_darwin-i386.deb
> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
> /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Release
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies
>
> I followed the instructions (above) and it said it was going to 
> remove gnucash2.  As follows:
>
> Updating the list of locally available binary packages.
> Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386
> Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386
> Scanning dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386
> Scanning dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386
> Scanning dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386
> Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
> /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Release
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> kiley-barracloughs-computer:~ KB$ sudo apt-get update
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/crypto Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/main Release
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Packages
> Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/current/crypto Release
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> kiley-barracloughs-computer:~ KB$ sudo apt-get install 
> gnucash-dev=1.8.12-11 gnucash=1.8.12-11
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  gnucash2
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  gnucash gnucash-dev
> 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1  not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/5329kB of archives. After unpacking 2511kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
>
> How do I get the tutorial without removing gnucash 2??
>
>
>
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