Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other verison fails

[Art]

I had installed GC 2.6.6 and wanted to upgrade to 2.6.11, so I just followed the wiki, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu_14.04_LTS_.28Trusty_Tahr.29
except I used git to clone gc, git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

to get the latest build, instead using the tar ball.
It took about an hour to build, but it worked as expected. I looked for a pre-built binary, but didn't see one for my OS, Ubuntu 15.10.I forgot where I got the 2.6.6, which was a 10 minute install because it was pre-packaged for deb, so that's another route you may be interested in. (I was running GC on Windows 10 before moving to Ubuntu and installing 2.6.6. I use MySQL for the backend on all my platforms.)
 - Art

      From: Neal <nlithwick at hotmail.com>
 To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
 Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 8:32 PM
 Subject: Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other verison fails
   
Ubuntu 14,04
GNUCash 2,6,1

Hi
I recently tried to update my version of GNUCash 2.6.1 to 2.6.10. The
initial install got very messy and basically destroyed GNUCash on my
machine. It took a few hours, reinstalling modules that the reinstall said
were missing (e.g AQBanking, libdbd (Sqlite3, MySql) and the gnucash-common
was wrong so I had to reinstall gnucash-common 2.6.1.
Well, I finally got it back to where it was prior to these efforts at 2.6.1.
I still want to update it as I cannot see my last column for my accounts
because of a column size adjustment bug that is fixed in an ensuing version.
I downloaded the deb packages for 2 different version, 2.6.6 and 2.6.10.
Using Ubuntu Sofware Centre, when I try to install 2.6.10, I get an error -
"Breaks existing package 'gnucash' dependency gnucash-common (=1:2.6.1.2)".
I also tried to install 2.6.6 which gives me a different error "Dependency
is not satisfiable: gnucash (=1:2.6.6-2ubuntu1)".
I am no expert, not even close, but it seems to me that I am in a classic
catch22 situation. It seems that the program wants me to not replace the
gnucash-common version because it might break the existing gnucash version
but if I update gnucash-common to 2.6.10, it will expect to see
gnucash-common 2.6.1 (tried it).
Would a dpkg install of 2.6.10 with ignore breaks and dependency work here?
I don't want to again go through the painful process of recovering my older
version of 2.6.1
Thanks in advance for any assistance and btw, other than this little issue,
this program easily does a great job.

Neal



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