[GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

[Colin Law]

Did you make sure there were no other similar files already in the
folder you downloaded to and that you downloaded the correct files?

Colin

On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 19:26, Eric Coates <eric.coates at sky.com> 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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