Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other verison fails

Neal Lithwick nlithwick at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 16 09:12:28 EST 2016


Sorry Colin, I thought I responded to that one previously.

Here is the output

neal at Lith-Serv:~$ apt-cache policy gnucash
gnucash:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 1:2.6.11-1~getdeb1
   Version table:
      1:2.6.11-1~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://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 
Packages


On 16-01-15 11:52 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
>
> On 16 Jan 2016 05:08, "Neal Lithwick" <nlithwick at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:nlithwick at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I have done a little more work on this and I believe I have 
> narrowed down the issue to the following:
> >
> > I can now install gnucash 2.6.11 however, you may notice I did not 
> use the word successfully.
> >
> > Here is the issue. No matter what I do, I cannot uninstall gnucash 
> 2.6.1 even though the utilities all say it is not installed. It is not 
> listed in the Unbuntu Software Centre, the package is not listed in 
> the Synaptic Package Manager but when I launch gnucash, it comes up 
> successfully as 2.6.1 (and still behaves at 2.6.1) whether 2.6.11 is 
> installed or not.
> >
> > I know this sounds weird but this is what is happening. Now, I have 
> no idea if the Ubuntu Software Centre is improperly reporting a 
> successful install or what is happening but 2.6.1 will continue to 
> launch and bring up my books successfully no matter whether 2.6.11 is 
> installed or not.
> >
> > What I want to put out there is that I believe I need to be able to 
> manually uninstall 2.6.1 in order to successfully install 2.6.11. I 
> have tried installs with deb package (dpkg, gdebi and apt-get). There 
> may be a parameter you can suggest for any of these commands that 
> might make this work for me but I don't see it myself. Would, for 
> instance, me deleting /usr/local/bin/gnucash and then reinstalling 
> 2.6.11 work? Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
> > Again, I am very happy with 2.6.1 except for the fact that I cannot 
> adjust the columns on the right hand side so I cannot see the entire 
> total amounts when working on my books. At any rate, I would like to 
> be able to update the app like most other users seems to be able to do.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any assistance you could provide me. Anyone 
> else run into this situation?
>
> As I asked previously, to help analyse this please uninstall gnucash 
> then tell us what you get for
> apt-cache policy gnucash
> And
> which gnucash
>
> We can't help if you don't answer the questions
>
> Colin
>
> >
> >
> > -Neal
> >
> >
> >
> > On 16-01-15 12:47 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> >>
> >> forgot to copy the list
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Tommy Trussell 
> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com <mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com> 
> <mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com <mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com>>> 
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Neal Lithwick
> >>     <nhlithwick at gmail.com <mailto:nhlithwick at gmail.com> 
> <mailto:nhlithwick at gmail.com <mailto:nhlithwick at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         Hi Tommy
> >>
> >>         I am running on an AMD64 machine.
> >>
> >>         Output from sudo apt-get update (no errors):
> >>
> >>         Ign http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty InRelease
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates InRelease
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports InRelease
> >>         Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 InRelease
> >>         Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release.gpg
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security InRelease
> >>         Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2 Release
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty Release.gpg
> >>         Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/main Sources
> >>         Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/restricted Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/universe Sources
> >>         Ign http://archive.canonical.com trusty InRelease
> >>         Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/multiverse Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/restricted amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/universe amd64 
> Packages
> >>         Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg
> >>         Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty Release.gpg
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/multiverse amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://archive.getdeb.net wily-getdeb InRelease
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/restricted i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/universe i386 
> Packages
> >>         Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty Release
> >>         Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty Release
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/multiverse i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/main Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/multiverse
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/restricted
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-updates/universe 
> Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources
> >>         Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty/partner Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/main Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/restricted Sources
> >>         Hit http://archive.getdeb.net wily-getdeb/apps Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/universe Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/multiverse Sources
> >>         Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty/partner amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/main amd64 
> Packages
> >>         Hit http://archive.getdeb.net wily-getdeb/apps amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/restricted amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/universe amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/multiverse amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/main i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty/partner i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/restricted i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://archive.getdeb.net wily-getdeb/apps i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/universe i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Ign http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib 
> Translation-en_CA
> >>         Hit http://www.openprinting.org lsb3.2/contrib Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/multiverse i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/main 
> Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty/partner Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/multiverse
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/restricted
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-backports/universe
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/main Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/restricted Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/universe Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/multiverse Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/restricted amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/universe amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/multiverse amd64
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/main i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/restricted i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/universe i386 
> Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/multiverse i386
> >>         Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/main Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/multiverse
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/restricted
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty-security/universe
> >>         Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty Release
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/main Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/restricted Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/universe Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/multiverse Sources
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/main amd64 Packages
> >>         Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en_CA
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/restricted amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/universe amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/main i386 Packages
> >>         Ign http://archive.getdeb.net wily-getdeb/apps 
> Translation-en_CA
> >>         Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/restricted i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/universe i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/multiverse i386 Packages
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/main Translation-en_CA
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/main Translation-en
> >>         Ign http://archive.getdeb.net wily-getdeb/apps Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/multiverse Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/restricted Translation-en
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/universe Translation-en_CA
> >>         Hit http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/universe Translation-en
> >>         Ign http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/multiverse Translation-en_CA
> >>         Ign http://mirror.it.ubc.ca trusty/restricted Translation-en_CA
> >>         Reading package lists... Done
> >>
> >>
> >>     This explains it!  You seem to be using the wrong getdeb
> >>     repository -- it should be trusty, NOT wily
> >>
> >>     1) open this file (using sudo and your favorite editor)
> >>
> >>     /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list
> >>
> >>     2) and change wily to trusty
> >>
> >>     then after you save it
> >>
> >>     sudo apt-get update
> >>
> >>     After that, hopefully you won't have a problem with any other
> >>     packages that were installed using the wrong repository.
> >>
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