Compile Guncash

[Tommy Trussell]

see my response below

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I followed the second set of directions and it worked, I now load up
> the 2.6.6 version.
>
> Is that the method for upgrading in the future, with the next stable
> release?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dennis
>
>
Hi, Dennis -- it would REALLY be helpful if you would enter your responses
BELOW the text you are responding to, like I am doing now -- it makes it a
lot easier to follow.

I am guessing that you found Colin's suggestion was the one that worked:

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

In your earlier message, it said:



> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > dennis at dennis-Linux04:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> > [sudo] password for dennis:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Calculating upgrade... Done
> > The following packages have been kept back:
> >   gnucash gnucash-common
>

Apt reported "The following packages have been kept back" and it listed
gnucash gnucash-common

This meant there was a software dependency that couldn't be satisfied with
a regular apt-get upgrade.

You fixed it by issuing a dist-upgrade command, which tells the package
manager it's OK to remove packages that are "blocking" the installation of
the updates. When you issued the dist-upgrade command, apt would have
reported exactly which packages needed to be removed or replaced.

Most of the time you do NOT have to go to that much trouble to install an
updated GnuCash package. (For example, I didn't have to on MY Ubuntu 14.04
system, so I must have a different set of packages installed.)

However, if the issue comes up again, now you know how to handle it!



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