Price editor problems

Michael mjchurchil at aol.com
Tue Aug 9 16:22:51 EDT 2016


Thanks Chris, a similar process with Mint 18, based on Ubuntu 16.04, 
seems to work quite well.  Quick update on the wiki page also.  Mike


On 08/08/2016 06:48 PM, Chris Good wrote:
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 22:34:43 +0100
>>> From: Steve Dodd <steved424 at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: Price editor problems
>>> Message-ID:
>>>
>> <CAJ6XMjFYxzp7PbR=oLev_gW3EAH8mvmhAE8ceNxEDPxqzJGJ8w at mail.gm
>> ail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>>
>>> Thank you, that's sorted it - I didn't spot the reference to the price
>>> editor in the changelog..
>>>
>>> To build 2.6.13 using the packaging included in the 2.6.12 getdeb
>>> sources, I had to
>>>
>>> --- debian/rules        2014-12-23 18:18:05.000000000 +0000
>>> +++ gnucash-2.6.13/debian/rules 2016-08-07 22:23:35.334917524 +0100
>>> @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
>>> # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
>>> export DH_VERBOSE=1
>>>
>>> +DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -
>> qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
>>> +
>>> # Hack for Gnucash build system
>>> export BUILDING_FROM_SVN=$(if $(wildcard autogen.sh),yes,no)
>>>
>>>
>>> For no obvious reason, otherwise dpkg-shlibdeps fails during the
>>> build. I guess the automated build process getdeb uses sets this higher
>> up..?
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 7 August 2016 at 18:45, Michael via gnucash-user <
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Steve, I believe there is a bug with manually entering prices in
>>>> 2.6.12.  It has been fixed in 2.6.13, but that does not seem to be
>>>> available on the repositories.  I built 2.6.13 from source, for the
>>>> first time, with several false starts, and the error did seem to be
>>>> gone.  I was using Mint 17.3 which is based on Ubuntu 14.04.  Now I
>>>> have switched to Mint 18 which is based on Ubuntu 16.04, but do not
>>>> seem to be able to build
>>>> 2.6.13 with that platform.  I don't have a great need to enter
>>>> prices so am waiting to see if 2.6.13 shows up on the repositories.
>>>> Not an ideal solution.  Best of luck if you try to build 2.6.13.
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/07/2016 08:43 AM, Steve Dodd wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Using gnucash 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 14.04.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone else see weird problems with the price editor?
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot seem to manually add a price prior to the most recent one
>>>>> - it is silently ignored / thrown away.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, in some instances, an existing price will temporarily
>>>>> disappear from the price editor window - and then reappear after it
>>>>> is closed and reopened?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hints gratefully received!
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
> Hi Steve,
>
> Well done compiling 2.6.13, but we could have saved you a little time.
>
> Just for others info, from memory, some-one recently said on this list (I
> cannot find now who by searching the archives),
> that they installed 2.6.13 on Mint from
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash/.
>
> I just tested this by installing to Ubuntu 16.04.1 and it seems to work fine.
> I downloaded from the above link
>     gnucash_2.6.13-1_amd64.deb
>     gnucash-common_2.6.13-1_all.deb
> copied from ~/Downloads to new directory, then
>    sudo dpkg -i *.deb
>
> It complained about some missing dependencies: libaqbanking35 etc.
> I opened Ubuntu Software Centre from the Dash, which said there was a problem
> and offered to repair it, which I accepted.
> After 30 seconds or so, all the dependencies had been installed.
>
> I'll update http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu.
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
>
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