Compile Guncash

Dennis Powless claven123 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 21:18:35 EDT 2015


14.04 LTS
On Apr 6, 2015 8:01 PM, "Tommy Trussell" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 6 April 2015 at 19:34, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > So, I had to reinstall ubuntu and went to install gncash following the
>> > > directions found at the get deb website, first installing the
>> repository
>> > > then I ran the code to install gnucash, but I got the 6.x.1 version
>> not
>> > the
>> > > 6.x.6 version....
>> >
>> > What do you see if, in a terminal, you run
>> >
>> > apt-cache policy gnucash
>> >
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> dennis at dennis-Linux04:~$ apt-cache policy gnucash
>>> gnucash:
>>>   Installed: 1:2.6.1-2
>>>   Candidate: 1:2.6.6-1~getdeb1
>>>   Version table:
>>>      1:2.6.6-1~getdeb1 0
>>>         500 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ trusty-getdeb/apps amd64
>>> Packages
>>>  *** 1:2.6.1-2 0
>>>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64
>>> Packages
>>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>> N: Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
>>> '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/'
>>> as it has an invalid filename extension
>>> N: Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
>>> '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/'
>>> as it has an invalid filename extension
>>> dennis at dennis-Linux04:~$
>>>
>>
>> The numbers are confusing, but that looks good. You have GnuCash version
>> 2.6.6 available and version 2.6.1 installed (both from getdeb.net). The
>> latest available from the Ubuntu repository is version 2.6.1. If you run
>>
>> $ apt-get upgrade
>>
>> your system should install GnuCash 2.6.6.
>>
>>
>
> One more thought -- since it didn't already do the right thing, are you
> running Ubuntu "Trusty" version 14.04, or some other distro or version of
> linux? What does the terminal say when you issue the command? (sorry I left
> the sudo out before)
>
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>
>
>
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