cannot install gc 2.6 for ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 11 February 2014 09:02, John Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> 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.

I believe that Tommy was including Xubuntu when he said ubuntu.  It is
the version number that is important.  Xubuntu 13.10 should be ok I
believe.  Of course if you do not need 2.6 then remove getdeb and use
2.4 from the standard repo.

Colin