Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other version fails

[Neal Lithwick]

Well Colin, yes and no.

I have gnucash 2.6.11 installed successfully now (thanks a million to 
all that helped) but I am still in the same quagmire, I cannot resize 
the right side columns of my ledger so I still can't see the entire 
numbers in the last column. I thought a newer version rectified this issue?
Whenever I try to resize the column, the one after description, it just 
bounces back to the original location and doesn't resize? I believe 
these guys work on stylesheets (I think) so is there a way I can rectify 
this issue by editing the stylesheet? It doesn't seem to work through 
the GUI.

-Neal

On 16-01-16 07:11 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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