Updating GC in Jaunty

[Thomas Bullock]

Still absorbing and growing, at least on the information side, but not so much on the action side.  The more the user group responds, the more I learn how much I have yet to learn.

Thanks for your additional suggestions.  At some point, I am going to have to jump into the water and start swimming.  Currently, what gives me pause is the net effect of the dialogue to this point.  Yvan, James Duerr, Tim Frost, and you have made me suspect that extracting the tar that I downloaded likely was done in the wrong location.  Since I did not specify a location, the extraction must have used a default place.

So I have these hesitations/questions:
1.  Can the extracted tar be reversed?  It seems to me not likely.   If not, how do I find it and delete the extracted modules so that I can be assured of a clean install?  If these modules cannot be found, will the System>Administration>Computer Janitor clean them up eventually?

2.  If I follow your most recent suggestion of using karmic repositories, am I correct that the Synaptic Package Manager or the Applications>Add/Remove function will actually handle the install of the downloaded modules and I would not have to use the multi-step terminal process outlined by James Duerr?

Thanks to all of you who are so patient with a newcomer to Linux, Jaunty, and all things not-Windows!

Tom

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Tommy Trussell [mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:38 PM
> >To: Thomas Bullock
> >Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >Subject: Re: Updating GC in Jaunty
> >
> >On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Bullock<tbullock at nd.edu>
> >wrote:
> >> Tommy   ,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your additional insights re the answers to the questions I
> >first raised.  I will try to absorb all that has been offered.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >
> >One more suggestion to absorb (I hope you are still absorbent!) -- I
> >have heard of someone downloading the GnuCash 2.2.9 packages
> >from the
> >upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" repository and installing them in the
> >current Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" release. I do not know whether any
> >dependency issues result, but I believe that would be the only risk in
> >doing this, and the package manager would probably refuse to allow
> >it.
> >
> >If this works it would be an easy, relatively "safe" solution to your
> >problem. You can get to the files directly from the repository:
> >
> >  http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gnucash
> >  http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gnucash-common
> >  http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gnucash-docs
> >
> >Scroll to the very end of each page to find the link to the archive.
> >For the gnucash file, you will need to choose the file that
> >corresponds to your processor and OS architecture (i386 or amd64).
> >The
> >gnucash package depends upon gnucash-common so those two
> >packages must
> >be installed at the same time.