[GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1
Dennis Powless
claven123 at gmail.com
Thu May 10 16:02:48 EDT 2018
I was able to use the remove feature in Ubuntu Software..... however after
I ran that, I did the whereis gnucash and this is the output.
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ whereis gnucash
gnucash: /etc/gnucash /usr/include/gnucash /usr/share/gnucash
I then did
sudo apt-get remove gnucash
repeated whereis gnucash with same output.
I don't have anything /gnucash in the lib directory
Here is the output of the lib directory
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:/lib$ ls
apparmor klibc-k3La8MUnuzHQ0_kG8hokcGAC0PA.so recovery-mode
brltty ld-linux.so.2 resolvconf
cpp ld-lsb.so.1 systemd
crda ld-lsb.so.2 sysvinit
firmware ld-lsb.so.3 terminfo
hdparm linux-sound-base udev
i386-linux-gnu lsb ufw
ifupdown modprobe.d x86_64-linux-gnu
init modules xtables
Output of the ls on i386-linux-gnu
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:/lib/i386-linux-gnu$ ls
ld-2.23.so libc-2.23.so libdl-2.23.so libnsl-2.23.so
libnss_files-2.23.so libnss_nisplus.so.2 libresolv.so.2
libutil-2.23.so
ld-linux.so.2 libcidn-2.23.so libdl.so.2 libnsl.so.1
libnss_files.so.2 libnss_nis.so.2 librt-2.23.so
libutil.so.1
libanl-2.23.so libcidn.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1
libnss_compat-2.23.so libnss_hesiod-2.23.so libpcprofile.so
librt.so.1 libz.so.1
libanl.so.1 libcrypt-2.23.so libm-2.23.so
libnss_compat.so.2 libnss_hesiod.so.2 libpthread-2.23.so
libSegFault.so libz.so.1.2.8
libBrokenLocale-2.23.so libcrypt.so.1 libmemusage.so
libnss_dns-2.23.so libnss_nis-2.23.so libpthread.so.0
libthread_db-1.0.so
libBrokenLocale.so.1 libc.so.6 libm.so.6 libnss_dns.so.2
libnss_nisplus-2.23.so libresolv-2.23.so libthread_db.so.1
I tried the dpkg optrion also
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ sudo dpkg -r gnucash
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnucash, only the config
files of which are on the system; use --purge to remove them too
Thanks for the help.
BTW, I can't find gnucash in unity.
Dennis
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:56 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>
> > On May 9, 2018, at 3:19 PM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > It is probbaly a good idea to uninstall the previous build of 2.6.x
> before
> > upgrading. With the changes between 2.6 and 3.1 there may have been
> changes
> > in the libraries/library names such that some older libraries may not
> > necessarilybe overwritten.
> >
> > How to remove it will depend upon how you installed it and in which
> location
> > you installed it. If you built it from sources and you have retained the
> > source directory, try changing to the top level source directory or a
> build
> > directory if there is one in a terminal and then type
> >
> > make uninstall
> >
> > if it was installed under your home directory
> >
> > or sudo make uninstall
> >
> > if it was installed to a system directory like /usr/local or/opt.
> >
> > If you didn't retain the source directory and/or build directory then
> things
> > get a bit harder. One strategy would be to download the sources for that
> > version again. Follow the instructions for buidling that version apart
> from
> > the "make install" or "sudo make install" at the end. This will recreate
> a
> > manifest file. Then issue the "make install" or "sudo make install" in
> the
> > top level source directory (if you built them with a build directory then
> > issue the command in that build directory.) Both Cmake and autotools
> can be
> > used on the later 2.6.x versions.
> >
> > You can tell where Gnucash is installed using
> > whereis gnucash
> > in a shell to list the locations that gnucash was installed to. If the
> first
> > part of the path is /usr/local or /opt or another system location ( that
> is
> > one not under the /home/dennis tree) then you will need to use sudo as a
> > prefix to make uninstall. I am not sure if whereis locates installs under
> > your home directory however.
> >
> >
> > If you installed using apt then
> >
> > sudo apt-get remove gnucash
> > should do the job.
> >
> > If you installed from a debian package you downloaded
> >
> > sudo dpkg -r gnucash
> >
> > should also remove it
> >
> > There are instructions on the
> >
> > The BuildUbuntu16.04 wiki page has a section for Uninstalling Gnucash as
> > above. It also has a link and a link to another which has instructions
> for
> > manually removing Gnucash. I need to add more to that page but the manual
> > removal instructions there do work. Note you need to use sudo before any
> > commands if installed in a system location.
> >
> > I would try the instructions above first however as manually deleting
> things
> > from system directories
> > can be hazardous to your system.
>
> You can clear enough to get a clean build by deleting
> <prefix>/<lib>/gnucash, where <prefix> is the root of the installation--the
> parent of bin/, etc/, <lib>/, and share/. <lib> is whatever your system
> calls its library directory: In the old days it was just lib/, but some
> systems use lib64/ and some use lib/x86_64-gnu-linux or something similar.
> For example, if you’re installing into $HOME/.local and lib isn’t mangled
> on your system,
> rm -rf $HOME/.local/lib/gnucash
> will delete all of the loadable modules and precompiled guile modules so
> they don’t interfere with the build.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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