(SOLVED) gnucash not compatible ubuntu 11.04 and ubuntu 11.10

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Oct 17 07:53:03 EDT 2011


At Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:28:11 +0200 Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:

> 
> On 17/10/2011 00:58, John Ralls wrote:
> > On Oct 16, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> On 16/10/2011 21:19, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> >>      
> >>> 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?
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> 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.
> >>      
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> >    
> Did the above and it is now running fine.
> Thanks for all the assistance.

Looks like it was a depency error in the Ubuntu repo -- you should file a
report with the Ubuntu people.  

> Regards
> Johan S
> 
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