Compile Guncash

[Dennis Powless]

Do I have uninstall first?
On Apr 6, 2015 9:18 PM, "Dennis Powless" <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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