[GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1
Dennis Powless
claven123 at gmail.com
Fri May 11 17:01:36 EDT 2018
This was the output.....
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ sudo apt list --installed | grep gnucash
[sudo] password for dennis:
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
scripts.
gnucash-common/xenial-getdeb,xenial-getdeb,now 1:2.6.17-1~getdeb1 all
[installed,auto-removable]
gnucash-docs/xenial,xenial,now 2.6.12-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge gnucash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
cabextract gnucash-common gnucash-docs guile-2.0 libaqbanking-data
libaqbanking35 libaqbanking35-plugins libaqebics0 libaqhbci22
libaqofxconnect7
libclass-singleton-perl libcommon-sense-perl libdate-manip-perl
libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl libdatetime-timezone-perl libdbi1
libfinance-quote-perl
libglade2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgoffice-0.8-8
libgoffice-0.8-8-common libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgwengui-gtk2-0
libgwenhywfar-data
libgwenhywfar60 libhtml-tableextract-perl libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0
libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl libktoblzcheck1v5 libllvm3.8
libmodule-implementation-perl
libmodule-runtime-perl libmspack0 libofx6 libosp5 libparams-classify-perl
libparams-validate-perl libqmi-glib1 libtry-tiny-perl
libtypes-serialiser-perl
libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common libxmlsec1
linux-headers-4.4.0-101 linux-headers-4.4.0-101-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-103
linux-headers-4.4.0-103-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-104
linux-headers-4.4.0-104-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-108
linux-headers-4.4.0-108-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-109 linux-headers-4.4.0-109-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-112 linux-headers-4.4.0-112-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-116
linux-headers-4.4.0-116-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-119
linux-headers-4.4.0-119-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-121
linux-headers-4.4.0-121-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-65 linux-headers-4.4.0-65-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-66 linux-headers-4.4.0-66-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-70 linux-headers-4.4.0-70-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-71 linux-headers-4.4.0-71-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-72 linux-headers-4.4.0-72-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-75 linux-headers-4.4.0-75-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-78 linux-headers-4.4.0-78-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-79 linux-headers-4.4.0-79-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-81 linux-headers-4.4.0-81-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-83 linux-headers-4.4.0-83-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-87 linux-headers-4.4.0-87-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-89 linux-headers-4.4.0-89-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-91 linux-headers-4.4.0-91-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-92 linux-headers-4.4.0-92-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-93 linux-headers-4.4.0-93-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-96 linux-headers-4.4.0-96-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-97 linux-headers-4.4.0-97-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-98 linux-headers-4.4.0-98-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-101-generic linux-image-4.4.0-103-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-104-generic linux-image-4.4.0-108-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-109-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-112-generic linux-image-4.4.0-116-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-119-generic linux-image-4.4.0-121-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-65-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-66-generic linux-image-4.4.0-70-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-71-generic linux-image-4.4.0-72-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-75-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-78-generic linux-image-4.4.0-79-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-81-generic linux-image-4.4.0-83-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-87-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-89-generic linux-image-4.4.0-91-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-92-generic linux-image-4.4.0-93-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-96-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-97-generic linux-image-4.4.0-98-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-101-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-103-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-104-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-108-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-109-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-112-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-116-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-119-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-121-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-65-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-66-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-70-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-71-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-72-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-75-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-78-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-79-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-81-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-83-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-87-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-89-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-91-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-92-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-93-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-96-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-97-generic
linux-image-extra-4.4.0-98-generic snap-confine
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnucash*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 1132738 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnucash (1:2.6.17-1~getdeb1) ...
Purging configuration files for gnucash (1:2.6.17-1~getdeb1) ...
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ sudo apt list --installed | grep gnucash
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
scripts.
gnucash-common/xenial-getdeb,xenial-getdeb,now 1:2.6.17-1~getdeb1 all
[installed,auto-removable]
gnucash-docs/xenial,xenial,now 2.6.12-1 all [installed,auto-removable]
dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ whereis gnucash
gnucash: /usr/include/gnucash /usr/share/gnucash
I guess I can run....
sudo dpkg remove --purge gnucash
Right?
Or, should I manually remove with....
sudo rm -irv /usr/include/gnucash
sudo rm -irv /usr/share/gnucash
Dennis
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 7:07 AM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> sudo apt list --installed | grep gnucash
>
> will give you a list of any gnucash packages installed with the Ubuntu
> package manager. If you don’t see gnucash listed, you built it from source.
> (I still see gnucash-common-2.6.12 when I run that command because I had
> that version from the repos installed originally, but I don’t see the
> 2.6.19 that I built from source)
>
> Since Ubuntu users /usr and you said a whereis command gave you both
> /usr/share and /usr/include, I’d be inclined to say you installed it with
> the package manager, not built from source.
>
> *note, for this purpose the package manager doesn’t care which front-end
> you used, that is ‘aptitude’ ‘apt’ ‘apt-get’ are all the ’same.’ dpkg is a
> little different in that you can use it to install a .deb package
> downloaded directly, but as far as I know, there are no .deb packages of
> GnuCash anywhere so I’d say it’s safe to say you didn’t use that method. (I
> think the apt command above would still return such an install however as
> it gets registered with the package manager)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On May 10, 2018, at 10:35 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> 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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