[GNC] Uninstall GC

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Thu Mar 7 16:07:01 EST 2019


On 3/7/19 8:55 AM, Dennis Powless wrote:
> -do I NEED to uninstall Gnucash?
> If so....


I've been told that you need to do so. 

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> I installed 3.1 from source, I now am trying to upgrade to 3.4.  On 18.04
> LTS.


Where did you do the build?  Do the "make uninstall" from that
directory/folder.

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> I have on my home directory....
> dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~/Applications$ ls
> build-gnucash-3.1  gnucash-3.1


Looks like ~/Applications/build-gnucash-3.1 is your build directory,
make uninstall while in that location.

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> Output from whereis gnucash
> /home/dennis/.local/bin/gnucash
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> I used
> Do I navigate to that location and run    make uninstall    ?
Not there.  The build directory where the make file is located.
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> FYI:
> dennis at dennis-XPS-8500:~$ sudo apt list --installed | grep gnucash
> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
> scripts.
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> sudo apt-get remove --purge gnucash
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package 'gnucash' is not installed, so not removed
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> sudo apt-get remove --purge gnucash
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package 'gnucash' is not installed, so not removed
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> d

That's the nature of a local build.  I'm getting into the habit of
building to a .deb file and installing from there.

--Steve

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