[GNC] Up grade from 2.6.xx to 3.1
Dennis Powless
claven123 at gmail.com
Fri May 11 17:49:23 EDT 2018
Yes, I ran the autoremove....
I then tried the rm commands and it seems the directories are already gone
after the autoremove.
wheris gnucash returned emtpy.
Thanks,
Dennis
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Nope.
>
> Just:
>
> sudo apt autoremove
>
> will do.
>
> Then run the rm commands. After that, there should be nothing left of
> gnucash’s prior installation.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On May 11, 2018, at 4:32 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok
> > Do I have to include anymore information or just type
> > sudo apt autoremove
> >
> > Yes, those directories contain files.
> >
> > D
> >
> > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> > You can run the dpkg command. I don’t suspect it will remove anything
> extra. If not, then you can proceed with the rm commands. You might want to
> take a look at those directories. It’s possible they are now empty, but the
> directories were not removed. (It seems /etc/gnucash is gone now however)
> >
> > Before you get to rm though, I’d also run the autoremove command that
> apt suggested to clean up all of those no-longer needed packages. (some of
> which were part of the original gnucash installation as it noted.)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > > On May 11, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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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