[GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1

Thu May 10 23:35:55 EDT 2018

I read up on uninstalling programs and about the - -purge command but didn’t know how to combine it with the dbkg command.  

To be honest, I don’t remember how I installed it gnucash on that machine.  

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> On May 10, 2018, at 8:30 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Dennis,
> 
>  If you use the --purge switch with apt remove i.e.
> 
> sudo apt-get remove  gnucash 
> 
> it should remove those configuration files in /usr/etc and /usr/include and /usr/share files as well. A post on AskUbuntu  indicates that the --purge switch does not remove configuration and data files in the user's home directory. The man page on apt-get purge indicates it removes configuration and data files but does not specify whether that is in the user's home directory or not.  I think apt on Linux Mint is somewhat similar to aptitude on Ubuntu but at present I don't have Ubuntu running on a VM to test it out. The user preference files are in /home/dennis/.gnucash for v 2.6. ( In V 3.1 they are located in /home/dennis/.local/share/gnucash - conversion is automatic on the first run of v3.1).  If you rename the /home/dennis/.gnucash directory to /home/dennis/.old-gnucash before using the "sudo apt remove  --purge gnucash" command and then rename them back to the original after having done that, you can avoid any possibility of deleting the preference files. 
> 
> The Ubuntu 16.04 distro appears to put its distribution version in
> /usr  as the prefix rather than /usr/local.
> 
>> On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 16:02 -0400, Dennis Powless wrote:
>> 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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