cannot install gc 2.6 for ubuntu

[John Sowden]

On 02/10/2014 01:52 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:02 PM, John Sowden 
> <jsowden at americansentry.net <mailto:jsowden at americansentry.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/09/2014 01:50 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
>         sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>     The first command went with no errors.  The seconds command went
>     with the following:
>
>
>     john at sentry15:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucash
>     Reading package lists... Done
>     Building dependency tree
>     Reading state information... Done
>     Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>     requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>     distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>     or been moved out of Incoming.
>     The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
>
>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>      gnucash : Depends: libaqbanking33 (>= 4.99.2) but it is not
>     installable
>                Recommends: gnucash-docs but it is not going to be
>     installed
>     E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>     john at sentry15:~$
>
>
> In addition to the information Colin Law requested, could you please 
> also check to see exactly what version of Ubuntu you are running. It 
> matters because if you look at http://www.getdeb.net/software/Gnucash 
>  you will see that GnuCash 2.6.1 has only been compiled for Ubuntu 
> 12.04 and Ubuntu 13.10 (the LTS release and the most-recent non-LTS 
> release).
>
> If you are running one of those two versions then you may also want to 
> be sure you are pointing to the correct GetDeb repository for your 
> version of Ubuntu.
>
> For example, if you are running Ubuntu 12.04, the repository (go to 
> the Software Center and open Edit --> Preferences and click the Other 
> Software tab. The entry for GetDeb in Ubuntu 12.04 should be:
>
> http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps
>
> If you are running Ubunto 13.10 the line above should say "saucy" 
> instead of "precise."
>
> If you are running ANY OTHER version of Ubuntu on your computer, you 
> cannot use the GnuCash packages at GetDeb. You CAN however compile and 
> install them yourself.
>
well, I am running xubuntu 13.10 with the xfce desktop.  Sounds like I 
need to remove getdeb from my update config.

Thanks,
John