[GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

[Ronal B Morse]

Eric, looks like the old version didn't cleanup properly.

Here's an alternative installation method...it's what I used to install 
3.5 this morning.

Follow the instructions to remove version 3.4, paying attention to the 
instruction to run

sudo apt autoremove

after removing the three main packages.

The autoremove will take care of the large number of files apt reports 
are no longer required when you remove the other packages. They must be 
removed from the system. Version 3.5 of Gnucash will install new 
versions of most of those files and simply replace the ones that don't 
change.

apt should report no errors after the autoremove operation.

When the cleanup of the old version is done, navigate to the directory 
where you downloaded and uncompressed the archive holding the three 
packages for version 3.5.

Starting with Gnucash-common_3.5_all.deb (this one must go first) double 
click on the .deb to start the dpkg installer. Click on the install 
button and enter your user password when prompted.  The process should 
complete with no reported errors and the install button will be replaced 
with a remove button. If you see a warning that no repository is 
associated with the package, it is not an error. Ignore it.

Repeat for the gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb and python3-gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb 
packages.

If no errors are reported, Gnucash 3.5 is properly installed.

Ron Morse

On 5/4/19 12:23 PM, Eric Coates wrote:
> Stephan
> 
> Although I???m about to relate some problems I???ve had with your 
> GnuCash 3.5 on Ubuntu 19.04 before I do I want to say that I appreciate 
> your efforts (and those of your ???hand holders???!) on providing tools 
> to the community. Sincerely, thank you.
> 
> My situation is that I upgraded to 19.04 just two or three weeks ago and 
> I don???t think I???ve done anything of such significance as to screw up 
> the system. I was running GnuCash 3.4 (the default in 19.04) but hit 
> problems (discussed elsewhere). Your solution seemed to be a gift from 
> heaven.
> 
> The first two Terminal commands (which with the third, I think, need to 
> be run in the Downloads/gnucash_3.5 folder) ran with no problems but the 
> third gave the following output:
> 
> /eric at Magus-4:~/Downloads/gnucash_3.5$ sudo apt install ./*3.5*.deb/
> 
> /[sudo] password for eric: /
> 
> /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'/
> 
> /Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have/
> 
> /requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable/
> 
> /distribution that some required packages have not yet been created/
> 
> /or been moved out of Incoming./
> 
> /The following information may help to resolve the situation:/
> 
> 
> /The following packages have unmet dependencies./
> 
> /gnucash : Depends: libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~) but it is not installable/
> 
> /Depends: libpython3.6 (>= 3.6.5) but it is not installable/
> 
> /Recommends: gnucash-docs but it is not going to be installed/
> 
> /Recommends: pythone3-gnucash but it is not installable/
> 
> /python3-gnucash : Depends: libpython3.6 (>= 3.6.5) but it is not 
> installable/
> 
> /Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.7.3-1 is to be installed/
> 
> /E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages./
> 
> /eric at Magus-4:~/Downloads/gnucash_3.5$ /
> 
> 
> Although my wife would probably disagree, I???m reasonably good at 
> following instructions but those error messages left me somewhat 
> baffled. I???ve done some investigations using Synaptic with the 
> following results:
> 
> ?????? There appears to be no libicu60 available, but libicu63 (version 
> 63.1-6) is installed
> 
> ?????? There appears to be no libpython3.6 available, but libpython3.7 
> (version 3.7.3-2) is installed
> 
> ?????? gnucash-docs is installed (as version 3.4-1)
> 
> ?????? A search for libpythone3-gnucash (and libpython3-gnucash) give no 
> results
> 
> ?????? python3 (at version 3.7.3-1) is installed
> 
> ?????? Selecting ???Custom Filters??? and the ???Broken??? category 
> shows no entries
> 
> To my untutored eyes, it looks as if my system is too ???advanced??? - 
> but what do I know.
> 
> Can you indicate how I may proceed - without my GnuCash I can???t spend 
> any money!
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Eric
> 
> PS: This document was constructed in LibreOffice, experience suggests 
> that the formatting and some characters might get messed up. If so, 
> apologies in advance.
> 
> 
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