Install upgrade from 2.6.1 to any other version fails

[Neal Lithwick]

Never mind, I read the gnucash FAQ and got it resolved.

Thanks to all, everything is working just great.

-Neal

On 16-01-16 07:27 AM, Neal Lithwick wrote:
> 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
>