Upgrading Question

[Les]

Thanks for your help.  I have now corrected my repo problems, added
getdeb to "additional repos" and now have GC 2.6.9.  Life is good. :-)

On 10/12/2015 12:45 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com
> <mailto:lelliott5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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
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> 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):
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> $ 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
> $
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> 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.
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> 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:
>>     On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:lelliott5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         No errors produced from sudo apt-get update.
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>>     What do you get with this command?
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>>     apt-cache policy gnucash
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