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

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 21:27, Lawrence Joy <lawrence_joy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I did 'sudo apt remove gnucash' and got:
>
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: list of packages
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED: gnucash [note that it does not state what version will be removed]
>
> I answered Y about do you want to continue. It looks like V3.4 was removed. I also did 'sudo apt autoremove'.
> I then pushed on the Super Key and G.
> No GnuCash icon shows up as it was doing before.
> I type completely "gnucash" and get a list of files with:
> MyNamed.gnucash
> MyNamed.gnucash.20190304113239.log
> MyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.log
> MyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.gnucash
> gnucash-3.5
>
> I clicked on gnucash-3.5 thinking that would launch the program, but no, there are some directories and files. I backed out of that.
>
> I then clicked on MyNamed.gnucash and a screen shows up with "Could not display "MyNamed.gnucash". There is no application installed for "GnuCash financial data" files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file? No or Yes."--Okay, what do I do???

Well that suggests you didn't install any other version, or at least
the system doesn't know where it is.  If you want to install 3.5 on
Ubuntu 18.04 the easiest way is to use the package built by Stephen
Butler.  To quote from his instructions:
Download files files posted on Google Drive.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11gjnSIw9E8B8kOJ01DHQuEA83xidbw8E

Contains:
gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb
gnucash-common_3.5_all.deb
python3-gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb

Download to your box.  Remove the old version of GnuCash, cd to your
download folder (or where you have the above 3 files) and then:

sudo apt install ./*_3.5_*.deb

Colin


> --Larry
>
> On Thursday, April 18, 2019, 12:04:39 PM EDT, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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