Updating GC in Jaunty

[Thomas Bullock]

Firefly,

Thanks for your information.

Can you tell me how you installed Koala?  Was it using Synaptic or did you use the terminal?  If by terminal, what steps did you use?  How did you assure you grabbed all dependencies?

Tom

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: FireFly [mailto:fireflys_98 at yahoo.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:53 AM
> >To: 'Tommy Trussell'; Thomas Bullock
> >Cc: 'gnucash-user at gnucash.org'
> >Subject: RE: Updating GC in Jaunty
> >
> >--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Thomas Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Thomas Bullock <tbullock at nd.edu>
> >> Subject: RE: Updating GC in Jaunty
> >> To: "'Tommy Trussell'" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: "'gnucash-user at gnucash.org'" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 5:03 AM
> >> 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?
> >
> >Unfortunately, no clue, I've just been reinstalling Ubuntu when I do
> >something that turns out to be "wrong" (just playing really right now)
> >so far I think I've installed about 20 times since last Friday!
> >
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> >Yes, this avoids any manual installation, I'm actually using Koala now
> >(since I found it doesn't seem to have too many bugs/issues, and has
> >the latest packets that I do want). Using Koala I could get both the
> >2.2.9 version of GNUCash, and the 1.16 version of FQ
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks to all of you who are so patient with a newcomer to
> >> Linux, Jaunty, and all things not-Windows!
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >
> >- James Duerr
> >
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