Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other verison fails

[Colin Law]

On 16 January 2016 at 14:58, Neal Lithwick <nhlithwick at gmail.com> wrote:
> neal at Lith-Serv:~$ ls /usr/local/bin
> gnc-fq-check  gnc-fq-helper  gnucash      gnucash-make-guids lcdoctl
> gnc-fq-dump   gnc-fq-update  gnucash-env  gnucash-valgrind
>
> As a matter of complete disclosure, I did start to build from source the
> first time I tried this but I never completed it (I stopped it) because it
> seemed to keep going and going, never ending. It would have been 2.6.10 (at
> that time), not 2.6.1

I don't think there can be any doubt that that is how they got there,
even if the version seems wrong.  You would probably be safe just to
delete those but just in case I suggest you just move them so you can
put them back if you find you needed them (which is not likely).  So
something like
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo mkdir old
sudo mv * old
which will move them all into the 'old' folder.
Having done that then
which gnucash
should show nothing, and if you try and run gnucash it should fail.
Then you can
sudo apt-get install gnucash
and hopefully all will be well.

Colin