Gnucash versions 2.2.9 and 2.4.10 broken in Debian Squeeze

[Ken Heard]

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On 2013-01-10 16:53, Colin Law wrote:

> On 10 January 2013 08:22, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

>> Can anyone suggest a livecd image which Ken could get and dual boot
>> with which already has a working gnucash?
> 
> Ubuntu 12.10 includes a fully working gnucash (2.4.11) and should dual
> boot with debian with no problems.

I downloaded from the Ubuntu site file ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso and
managed to write it to a USB stick.  Then I changed the BIOS in my
laptop, a Lenovo R61 which allows booting from a USB stick disguised as
either a HDD or a CDROM, and which has Debian Squeeze installed.  The
machine knew that there was something on the USB/CDROM, but whatever it
was it cound not boot from it.

Examination of the USB/CDROM revealed a number of directories with files
in them, but only one file outside of those directories which looked
like something remotely bootable.  It was a XXX.exe file.  XXX
represents the three letters in the file name which I no longer
remember.  In any event, since any file ending with .exe is a Microsoft
executable file, it would appear that Ubuntu 12.10 can only be live
installed on a machine which already has installed in it a Microsoft OS.

Several days later, I wanted to document in detail what had happened
when I tried that Ubuntu live installation by replicating it.  When I
tried I discovered that the USB/CDROM was no longer readable by the
laptop.  At this point I gave up.

The Debian developer responsible for Gnucash tried to replicate my
segmentation error problem but could not.  He was able to install
successfully in his Squeeze machine Gnucash 2.4.10-2, the version from
squeeze-backports.

The only thing I can think of to do now is wait until I am back in
Canada from Thailand at the end of April where I have two desktops, one
with Squeeze installed and the other still with Lenny and see whether
version of Gnucash in Lenny (2.2.9-10) still works there and whether
version 2.4.10-2 in the Squeeze machine.

If they do then the segmentation error may be specific to the Laptop.
If so my laptop may be failing. I am dependent solely on it while in
Thailand and can still use it for e-mails, etc.; so I hope will will not
fail completely until after I am back in Canada.  If however Gnucash is
broken on either or both of those machines, then ... what?

In the meantime I have to resort to doing my books manually, and will
have a massive posting job to do on my return.

> An 8GB partition for Ubuntu is plenty.

The following question is now moot, but I will ask it anyway.  Does a
live installation require use of a separate partition?

Regards, Ken Heard

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