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

[Lawrence Joy]

 A synopsis of what I did to get V3.5 loaded and working on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS OS. The files:MyNamed.gnucashMyNamed.gnucash.20190304113239.logMyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.logMyNamed.gnuchas.20190304124553.gnucashare in /home/larry and gnucash-3.5 is in /home/larry/Downloads.
I downloaded the three files by Stephen Butler off of Google Drive.--Thanks for that information as I had not seen it any other place before. Those three files were put in /home/larry/Downloads. Per instructions I did 'sudo apt install ./*_3.5_*.deb' in my /home/larry directory as that was where my gnucash files were. It came back with:"Reading package lists... Done""E: Unsupported file ./*_3.5_*.deb given on commandline"
I then went to /home/larry/Downloads directory and entered the same thing. It came back with"Reading package lists... Done""Building dependency tree""Reading state information... Done""Note, selecting 'gnucash' instead of './gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb""Note, selecting 'gnucash-common' instead of './gnucash-common_3.5_all.deb""Note, selecting 'python3-gnucash' instead of './python3-gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb""Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" The three notes bothered me but I went ahead and answered Y.It took about an hour and a half to do the download/programming.
Now when I push the Super Key and then push G the gnucash icon shows up, which I click on, and when I check Help>About it says its GnuCash V3.5. Hurray!
On the terminal I run 'which gnucash' and get back "usr/bin/gnucash".On the terminal I also run 'sudo dpkg -l | grep gnucash' and get backii  gnucash                                    1:3.5                                             amd64        personal and small-business financial-accounting software
ii  gnucash-common                             1:3.5                                             all          common files for the financial-accounting software Gnucash
ii  gnucash-docs                               3.4-0+bionic~ppa1                                 all          Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking program
ii  python3-gnucash                            1:3.5                                             amd64        Gnucash interface for Python
Everything seems to be okay now. Thanks for all your help.--Larry

 >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)
**Yes, the Help>About said it was V3.4.
>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.
**I'm not a programmer so I stick to official released stuff.
>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