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

[Adrien Monteleone]

I don’t know if you even had 3.4 installed unless you knew for a fact you were once running it. (If that is the case, you might have earlier removed 2.6.19)

It looks like you downloaded the 3.5 source. (you mentioned it contained directories and files)

You can build from that source download using the wiki instructions, or use the pre-built deb packages as Colin suggests. If you choose not to build from source, you can safely delete that gnucash-3.5 directory.

Do not delete the files ending in .gnucash. The first one `MyNamed.gnucash` is your main data file. The last one `MyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.gnucash` is a backup file. The other two are log files as their file extension suggests.

Keeping the logs and the backup is optional. Just don’t delete the main data file.

I would still run the dpkg -l command to make sure there are no other versions on your system before installing 3.5:

sudo dpkg -l | grep gnucash

(no response and a return to the command prompt means nothing else concerning gnucash is installed)

You can also perform a:

which gnucash

to see if the system thinks an executable with that name is located anywhere, but I don’t expect it will find anything.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 18, 2019, at 3:42 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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