[GNC] gnucash on debian problem

[Mike Reinehr]

John,

It appears that you are installing Gnucash from the Unstable repository 
of Debian. What is the version of Debian that you are running? If it is 
not Unstable, i.e., Stable or Testing, then you might be running into a 
conflict of library versions. All of the shared libraries that Gnucash 
3.2-1 will need may not be installed or of the correct version. You may 
need to upgrade libraries as well as Gnucash.

HTH.

CMR


On 07/14/2018 03:06 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> On 07/14/2018 01:49 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>     Attempt to start gnucash:
>>
>>     gnucash: symbol lookup error: 
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so: 
>> undefined symbol:
>>     gnc_build_userdata_path
>>
>>
>> Oh, you said the attempted upgrade failed. So after upgrading you get 
>> that error. How did you upgrade 
>
> sudo apt install gnucash
>
> and what is shown by
>> apt-cache policy gnucash
>
> apt-cache policy gnucash
> gnucash:
>   Installed: 1:3.2-1
>   Candidate: 1:3.2-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:3.2-1 180
>         180 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1:2.6.15-1 160
>         160 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
>
> ll /usr/bin/gnucash
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35888 Jul  4 04:21 /usr/bin/gnucash
>
> With above done I get the error.
>
> ================================================================================================= 
>
> To use gnucash, I go back to packages from the past:
>
> For the last working version, I install by
> dpkg -i gnucash_1%3a2.6.14-1_amd64.deb 
> gnucash-common_1%3a2.6.14-1_all.deb
>
> with the above 2.6.14 version installed:
>
> apt-cache policy gnucash
> gnucash:
>   Installed: 1:2.6.14-1
>   Candidate: 1:2.6.14-1
>   Version table:
>      1:3.2-1 180
>         180 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
>      1:2.6.15-1 160
>         160 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
>  *** 1:2.6.14-1 1100
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>
> Thanks for thinking about this,
>