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

[Adrien Monteleone]

#1, Before doing anything else, follow Colin’s suggestion to: `sudo apt remove gnucash` which will uninstall 2.6.19 (this is the version which is in the 18.04 repo) It may even remove *all* installed versions, but that’s okay because then you can install just the one you want.

I’ll answer your other questions in-line...

> On Apr 18, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Lawrence Joy <lawrence_joy at yahoo.com> 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?
You don’t need to ‘move’ it to a different version. The file is what it is. Which version you choose to use to open the file is separate from the file itself. (note, that some file format differences exist with version < 2.6.19 and later versions, including the 3.x series)

If you open version 3.4 and then open your file, you’ll be using version 3.4.

If you open version 3.5 and then open your file, you’ll be using version 3.5.

If you double-click your file, I’d think you *should* then be using the newest version 3.5, but that isn’t certain. Whatever Help > About says is what you end up with in that case. If you don’t want 3.4 any more, then remove it. How to do that, depends on how you installed it.


> 2. Then how do I delete V2.?.??

See above
> 3. And then how do I delete V3.4?

I’m still not sure how you installed this. The link on the website ‘by distribution’ takes you to a page that advises to use Software Center in Ubuntu. But doing that would get you the same 2.6.x from the 18.04 repos. I don’t see how you would have obtained 3.4. (note, 19.04, just out today, contains 3.4) There is no link on that page to download a pre-built package for Ubuntu. There is a link to download the source tarball though. Had you downloaded it, you’d have had to uncompress it and then follow the ‘build from source’ instructions and you’d remember doing that for sure. How you managed to install 3.4 will determine how to remove it.


> 4. Or maybe I should forget V3.5, if so what command to delete it?

And on that note, I can’t figure where you downloaded that from either. There is no pre-built 3.5 for Linux linked at gnucash.org. There is such a .deb file built by a user that has been posted to this list. Is that where you downloaded it from? (there was also a 3.4 available from that same user)

> 5. And then what command to delete V2.?.??

See #2

After removing GnuCash 2.6.19, please run the following command and report back the result:

sudo dpkg -l | grep gnucash

This will list any and all packages containing the name `gnucash` that are installed on your system along with their version info. From there, we can proceed with trimming out what you don’t want and getting you using version 3.5.

Regards,
Adrien