(SOLVED) gnucash not compatible ubuntu 11.04 and ubuntu 11.10

[Johan Scheepers]

On 17/10/2011 00:58, John Ralls wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
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>> On 16/10/2011 21:19, Phil Longstaff wrote:
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>>> What version of gnucash did you use to create your file?  What kind of file (xml or sqlite)?  What version of gnucash comes with ubuntu 11.10?
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>> File was created more than 3 yrs ago. Do not know version.
>> What kind ... probably depends on what was in use at that time.
>> Works fine on Ubuntu 11.04 ...Gnucash 2.4.2 built from r20253M on 2011-02-14
>> Works fine on Debian 6.0.2 ...Gnucash 2.2.9 built from r17949M on 2010-12-01
>> Problem Ubuntu 11.10 ...Gnucash 2.4.7 built from rb5bdf19+ on 2011-08-02.
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> Interesting. If it opens in 2.2.9 it's definitely an XML file. They're pulling from Github instead of using tarballs, but that's the commit where I bumped the version number.
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> Do try installing libdbd-sqlite3... ISTR that it was possible for the backend to fail and emit that message on an XML file if Gnucash was built with --enable-dbi but the sqlite3 driver wasn't installed.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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Did the above and it is now running fine.
Thanks for all the assistance.
Regards
Johan S