[GNC] gnucash v2.6 new install can't open on lubuntu 16.04?

[Colin Law]

On 28 April 2018 at 09:24, vince <hallvince13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/28/2018 09:12 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 28 April 2018 at 08:03, vince <hallvince13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello the list,
>> I've installed the above version of gnucash on lubuntu 16.04,(also a new
>> install) and cannot get gnucash to open. This is on a older Dell precision
>> workstation 390.
>>
>> The gnucash.trace report in /var says "* 08:22:27 OTHER <GLib-GIO>
>> Settings schema 'org.gnucash.general' is not installed"
>>
>> This is something that's never happened before and I've used gnucash
>> since ubuntu 7.04.
>> I'm running the same version of gnucash on a netbook using Bodhi Linux v
>> 4.5 and it's working perfectly!
>>
>> Any help or suggestions would really be appreciated.
>>
>
> Do you see any errors from
> sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> How did you install gnucash and what do the following commands show
> which gnucash
> apt-cache policy gnucash
>
> Colin
>
>
> Hello Colin,
>
> A bit more information, or rather a question. when I called up "which
> gnucash" the file in usr/bin/gnucash showed owner as root. Is this correct
> or should I be the owner?
>

No, that is as it should be, the software itself is owned by root. Your
accounts file will be owned by you, but that will likely be in a subfolder
of your home directory.

Colin



>
> Vince
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