Problems Running gnuCash in Mint 17.2

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 03 November 2015 09:40:38 Pluto Crat wrote:
> On Tuesday, 03 November, 2015 01:30 AM, iconit at comcast.net wrote:
> > When I upgraded to Linux Mint 17.x I went to the 64 bit version of
> > the OS. Every since then I have had problems with gnuCash. The two
> > biggest problems have been that 1) the program runs real slow and
> I'm running Gnucash on 64 bit Linux Mint 17.1 and .2 and no problems
> here. Could it be something else? Do you have a massive data file?
> Display driver problems? Stabbing in the dark a bit ... but I can
> confirm that the OS isn't the problem per se.
> 
> > 2) resizing the columns in the accounts is next to impossible, I
> > have somehow hidden the Withdrawal column in the Checking Account
> > and can't unhide it and the Description column takes up about half
> > the width of the screen.
> Resizing seems easy enough -- click and drag -- but I do see that the
> Description field seems to be fixed at a certain minimum width, which
> is possibly a bit wide on small screens. Perhaps this information is
> held in a preferences file somewhere, which could be edited to bring
> back your Withdrawal column. I'll defer to others on this forum for
> advice on that.
> 
> > The Software Manager Linux offers only install gnuCash 2.6.1 so that
> > is what I am using.
> Not sure if it will solve your problem, but if you use the getdeb
> repositories, you'll be able to get the latest version.
> http://www.getdeb.net/app/Gnucash
> If you decide to try this note
> a) You'll need to keep a backup of your accounts file, as loading it
> in the newer version of Gnucash will alter its structure: you can't
> open it in 2.6.1 after this has happened.

I wouldn't expect this. The devs generally take a lot of care that minor releases are fully 
backwards compatible, so files manipulated with 2.6.8 should still work with 2.6.1. If it doesn't, 
that should be reported as a bug.
What problem did you experience when trying to open your 2.6.8 file with 2.6.1 ?

In addition, I know 2.6.1 had some fairly major bugs (mostly crashers). So it's highly 
recommended to switch to a more recent version.

I have seen several people report they have no problem with the getdeb version of gnucash. I'm 
not using Mint or Debian myself, so I can't add much to that part of the discussion unfortunately.

Regards,

Geert