[GNC] GnuCash V3.5 Not Used By My GnuCash Database

[Colin Law]

To remove the version that you installed using apt install then do
sudo apt remove gnucash
Do that first and see what state you are in then.  Before doing
anything make sure your backup of your accounts file is up to date,
just in case, though installing/removing should not affect it.

Colin

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 16:30, Lawrence Joy via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>  Adrien,Originally I did a 'sudo app download' of GnuCash, which loaded V2.?.? to my Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS OS somewhere. Under that version of GnuCash I started a book or database of accounts. I saw an announcement that V3.4 was available and I like to be up to date, so I went to the GnuCash website and did a download of V3.4 for Ubuntu. When it was done downloading the message was that V3.4 was in a different place and that it copied all of my files over to the new place because when I press the super key and press G, for GnuCash, the GnuCash icon comes up, which I click on, and my book of accounts show up and the Help screen says its V3.4. The original V2.?.? still exits in the old place. I would have to go searching to find V2.?.? and delete those files, which I don't know how to do, but I don't want to delete any dependencies that V3.4 would use and not have V3.4 working.
> I saw that V3.5 was available and I like to keep up with the latest, so I went to the Help tab in my V3.4 that has a link to the GnuCash website and did a download, clicking on "Via distribution". I am not a programmer so I did not go the "Source" route. V3.5 downloaded, again I don't know where and would have to do a search to find it. I press the super key and press G, for GnuCash, the GnuCash icon comes up, I click on it, and my book of accounts show up with the Help screen stating it still is V3.4. So I guess that V3.5 is loaded in what you call side-by-side. How come my book of accounts didn't get transferred over like when I downloaded V3.4?
> The questions I have are:1. How to move my book of accounts from V3.4 to V3.5?2. Then how do I delete V2.?.??3. And then how do I delete V3.4?4. Or maybe I should forget V3.5, if so what command to delete it?5. And then what command to delete V2.?.??
> I can use the terminal and know at least some of the terminal commands.
> --Regards, Larry
>
>     On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 10:00:55 PM EDT, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>  By chance did you manage to install them side-by-side?
>
> How did you install 3.5? (or 3.4 for that matter, as neither is in the 18.04 repos)
>
> Did you try to intentionally launch 3.5 first, then use File > Open?
>
> I can’t see how in such a case, 3.4 would suddenly launch. (but double-clicking the file in Nautilus *might* cause that)
>
> If the file association is wrong and you still have both versions installed then just re-assign .gnucash file types to 3.5 to fix it. And/or remove 3.4. (note, you might need to re-install 3.5 after removing 3.4 depending on the install method as some important dependencies *might* get removed with it.)
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
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