Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other verison fails

[Neal]

I am running Ubuntu Trusty (14.04). I found the prepackaged deb packages 
for both 2.6.6 and 2.6.10. Both showed their respective errors I listed 
below. Thanks but already tried this and no go.

-Neal

On 16-01-13 09:12 PM, pinaar [via GnuCash] wrote:
> 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 <[hidden email] 
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>  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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