Upgrading Question

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> gnucash:
>   Installed: 1:2.6.7-1~getdeb1
>   Candidate: 1:2.6.7-1~getdeb1
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:2.6.7-1~getdeb1 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1:2.6.1-2 0
>
>
You have something odd with your apt configuration; you are probably not
getting ANY updates on any Universe packages (and maybe not others,
either). Here's what my result looks like (I am running Ubuntu 14.04 but
not using the "official" Ubuntu Universe repository; the mirror is "closer"
to me network-wise):

$ apt-cache policy gnucash
gnucash:
  Installed: 1:2.6.9-1~getdeb1
  Candidate: 1:2.6.9-1~getdeb1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.6.9-1~getdeb1 0
        500 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ trusty-getdeb/apps amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.6.1-2 0
        500 http://ftp.utexas.edu/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
$

You may have intentionally disabled the Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" Universe
repository, so that part isn't necessarily wrong. However, it may mean your
apt configuration is broken; the only gnucash package it's seeing is the
one already installed, and you may have installed that package manually.
You want to at least see the getdeb repository and probably the Universe
mirror so you can install OTHER Universe packages on your system. (Universe
contains the many thousands of package that are duplicated from Debian that
are not supported directly by Ubuntu.) I don't know what Mint calls that
repository.

If you have a Mint forum you participate in, they may be able to tell you
where to look to set your apt configuration correctly. I would hesitate to
suggest anything since I don't run Mint.




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> On 10/12/2015 09:18 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No errors produced from sudo apt-get update.
>>
>>
> What do you get with this command?
>
> apt-cache policy gnucash
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