[GNC] GC won't load on Ubuntu 19.04

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 2 mei 2019 10:41:55 CEST schreef Dennis Powless:
> dennis at dennisLaptop1:~$ whereis gnucash
> gnucash: /home/dennis/.local/bin/gnucash
> 
> I'm surprised that I didn't have more.  I don't see any other directories.
> 
> dennis at dennisLaptop1:~/.local/bin$ ls
> gnc-fq-check  gnc-fq-helper  gnucash
> gnc-fq-dump   gnc-fq-update  gnucash-valgrind
> 
> This is the contents of that directory.
> 
> D

There will probably also be a
/home/dennis/.local/etc
/home/dennis/.local/include
/home/dennis/.local/lib (or lib64, libexec)
/home/dennis/.local/share

Those are all artifacts from a gnucash built from source (well, the last one 
will hold lots of settings from various packages in addition to build 
artifacts from your private gnucash build).

So it seems you have a local build that is interfering with the gnucash 
package installed by your package manager. I would suggest to remove your 
local installation.

The safest way to clean this up is to go back to your gnucash build directory 
and run
make uninstall
This presumes you haven't touched it after the last time you built and 
installed gnucash from source.

If that's no longer possible, you can safely remove
/home/dennis/.local/etc
/home/dennis/.local/include
/home/dennis/.local/lib (or lib64, libexec)

You can't do the same with /home/dennis/.local/share as it contains a mix of 
files installed from your build and configuration settings stored by running 
applications.
That will be more of a mess to untangle :(

From
/home/dennis/.local/share/gnucash you can remove the following files and 
directories:
accounts
checks
gtkbuilder
icons
jqplot
make-prefs-migration-script.xsl
migratable-prefs.xml
pixmaps
python
scm
tip_of_the_day.list
ui

In addition from
/home/dennis/.local/share you can remove the following files and directories:
doc
glib-2.0
gnucash
locale
man
metainfo

Next remove
/home/dennis/.local/applications/gnucash.desktop

Finally a couple of files are also stored in icons. But those shouldn't 
interfere.

Regards,

Geert