[GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1
David Cousens
davidcousens at bigpond.com
Thu May 10 20:30:26 EDT 2018
Dennis,
If you use the --purge switch with apt remove i.e.
sudo apt-get remove --purge 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
> > //gnucash, where is the root of the
> > installation--the parent of bin/, etc/, /, and share/.
> > 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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