[GNC] Fedora => Debian 3.2 => 2.1.15 Data Conversion Issues (Solved)

[Geert Janssens]

Glad you got it working and thanks for sharing your solution !

Geert

Op dinsdag 6 november 2018 20:02:06 CET schreef Wolfram Wagner:
> Dear List,
> for the next running into these issues.
> 
> My Problem:
> I am running debian stable/strech 9. The stable version delivers a
> pretty old gnucash. I have used gnucash on fedora before, was there on
> 3.2 already and could not use the more recent database in the old
> version.
> So I removed the old gnucash and installed gnucash 3.2 via flatpak in
> this way:
> (1) I installed flatpak via apt.
> (2) Opened the application "Software" and installed gnucash.
> 
> The cause:
> Gnucash started in English, no matter what I have tried.
> This process has not installed the locales for gnucash.
> 
> You can recognize this situation by starting it from command line via
> 
> $ flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
> 
> It will give you "The locale defined in the environment isn't
> supported. Falling back to the 'C' (US English) locale".
> 
> 
> I found a hint [1] and issued:
> $ flatpak remote-ls flathub | grep gnucash
> org.gnucash.GnuCash                                    
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.Debug                              
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.Locale                             
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.Sources 
> 
> This shows, that gnucash seems to have a subpackage .Locale that smells
>   like my missing translations.
> 
> As I had modified my local flatpak installation, I removed gnucash with
> $ sudo flatpak --system uninstall org.gnucash.GnuCash
> 
> and installed them again with:
> 
> $ sudo flatpak --system install flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.Locale
> 
> And it worked:
> flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
> 
> => German
> 
> Thanks for your patience with me! If I can help others, I am glad!
> 
> Wolfram
> 
> The hint that helped me understanding flatpak
> [1] https://github.com/flathub/org.blender.Blender/issues/5#issuecommen
> t-390494396
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