(SOLVED) gnucash not compatible ubuntu 11.04 and ubuntu 11.10

[Colin Law]

On 17 October 2011 20:15, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> On 17/10/2011 15:55, Derek Atkins wrote:
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>> Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  writes:
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>>> Can someone say how to check the format of the file?
>>>
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>> file /path/to/file.gnucash
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>> It will tell you if it's a GZIP file (which implies XML), and XML file
>> (which implies uncompressed), or a SQLite file.
>>
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>> -derek
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>
> In my gnucash directory the first file is a Gzip archive.
> The rest are data and log files.
> Is that what was explained.

Yes, assuming that when you say 'the first file' you mean the one that
you attempted to open (via file open in gnucash) that gave you the
backend error.  If so then yes, it is a compressed xml file.

Colin L.