mysql server has an error, broken or wrong data.

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 10:49:59 -0400
"Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, July 9, 2011 9:39 am, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> > On 07/09/2011 09:07 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Most distributions include GnuCash.  What Distro did you try?  You
> >> can generally just do:
> >>
> >>   yum install gnucash
> >> or
> >>   apt-get install gnucash
> >>
> > Tried but:
> >> Then you would need to install the sqlite, mysql, and pgsql DBD
> >> package as
> >> well in order to get the SQL backend to "turn on".
> > Doesn't work for me. I had tried, and in "Open" dialogue and "Save
> > as" dialogue, only "xml" as data format had appeared, on GnuCash
> > 2.4.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 with postgresql-client package installed.
> > Having you said that for me, later I tried having the whole
> > postgresql package installed, result is the same (only "xml" option
> > is there).
> 
> Did you install the pgsql DBD driver?  On Fedora it would be called
> something like libdbi-dbd-pgsql.  I don't know the Deb/Ub equivalent
> name.
> 
> -derek
> 
> 

try libdbd-pgsql for Debian based systems