Linux: 2.4.11 migratoin to 2.6.13 Guide?

[james]

Hello David,

As I mentioned before, there is nothing in the manual or Tutorial
located at gnucash.org, related to upgrades and moving to a different 
computer; surely these are common occurrences... Upgraded on gentoo is 
quite trival (emerge -u <pkg>) or a new installation on a new system
(emerge <pkg>). So I guess I should refined the question to what data
sets need to copied to the new installation?

Parsing the 'http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ' FAQ, I did find these 
tidbits::

1. Lots of antidotes to problems, after a migration
  (gnucash --nofile);  remove/rename reports.

2. Make sure gnucash-docs is installed (it is) assuming that's the 
standard linux manpage for gnucash?

3. Data files (default xml or sqlite) good to know, now I just have to 
find the location dir of those xml files?  Note this page::
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_XML_format suggests the gzip files
are indeed the xml format files.


4. Reference to this document::
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User_Configuration_Files
But, none of those files

On the old system I do see these files::
using the linux 'file' command, interestingly the file types below are::

'FORTRAN program' and 'gzip compresses  data, from Unix', respectively.

cat1.gnucash.2015#########.log
cat1.gnucash.2015#########.gnucash

And this file::
gnucash.workpages.27aug2016.gnucasch.2016#########.log

I also found these files::
/etc/gnucash/:: 'config', which is mostly empty and 'environment' which 
seems to be important.


And this directory ~user/.gnucash  with 3 dirs (books checks translog) 
with the files  'accelerator-map' which is significant, and 
'stylesheets-2.0' which is scant (probably default) and 
'expressions-2.0' which is empty.

Now, reading the standard man pages for 2.6.13::

'man gnucash' is short and identical to 'info gnucash'

I'm not certain there are examples and useful information in
gnucash-docs-2.6.13, nor how to access those documents on (gentoo) linux?


Guidance on these file and migration/upgrade are most welcome.


James




On 09/08/2016 11:15 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> Perhaps the help documentation was not installed in your instance of
> Linux.  Go to the gnucash.org <http://gnucash.org> website and check the
> documentation there.
>
> You will find that it is very easy, as all you have to do is copy your
> data file to your new data folder and do a fresh install of GnuCash.  If
> you need to retain custom reports or user settings there is a section in
> the FAQs about how to do that.
>
> David C
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM, james <garftd at verizon.net
> <mailto:garftd at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I've been using  gnucash for (4) years for a small business, without
>     issue on gentoo linux. Surely that's a testament to the fine folks
>     that wrote and maintain this codebase (kudos!).
>
>     So I looked at the wiki, the Help Manual and the Tutorial and Concept
>     documents, and found nothing. Surely there is a list of files, I
>     need to copy the data over to a new computer with a fresh install of
>     gnucash on linux, and maintain the same chart of accounts. NO fancy
>     database, just the defaults when it was installed (as in 2.4.x).
>     Once I make this migration, I may do it twice onto (2) different
>     systems, just to have one to experiment with new features, using a
>     database (like postgres) and other interfaced scripts and programs
>     for test and development.
>
>
>     I'd think just using the same dir structure(s) and using scp as the
>     gnucash-2.4.11 file(s) transfer tool, while maintaining file
>     permissions and (tree)locations, would do the trick so when
>     gnucash-2.6.13 is fired up on the new system, it's pretty much the same?
>
>
>     I find no list of file(s) or guidelines for such an upgrade-transfer
>     semantic. Perhaps an indexed point into the archives of this list
>     where such an email has been previously posted? Or did I miss such
>     steps in an obvious document?
>
>
>     Any guidance is greatly appreciated,
>     James
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