[GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

[Colin Law]

If you select and download all three files in one go then Dropbox zips
them up.  If you download them one at a time it keeps them as
individual files and saves the effort of unzipping them.

Colin

On Sat, 4 May 2019 at 22:23, Eric Coates <eric.coates at sky.com> wrote:
>
> Colin, Ronal
>
> Thanks for taking the time to respond.
>
> It's possible/probable that I used the wrong files. In my Download
> folder I had a directory gnucash_3.5 and a zipped file (which, to be
> honest I didn't notice until Colin's note prompted a careful looking) I
> never use the underscore convention (on files/directories I create - for
> reasons that are so petty it's embarrassing to share them) so I assumed
> that was the result of downloading Stephen's file and it is those files
> I used.
>
> Idiot me person! A phrase popular in our family through my wife's use of it.
>
> I've just unzipped the zip file and compared the resulting files with
> those in the gnucash_3.5 directory. The ones from the zip file all have
> a modified date of "yesterday", those from the gnucash_3.5 directory
> have a modified date of 16th April. As Stephen's note suggests that he
> has just created the "correct" files I'm going to assume that I should
> have used the files from the zipped file.
>
> But I'm going to do that tomorrow - it's getting late and I have a
> (phone) date with my daughter now. I'll report back tomorrow.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Eric
>
> ======================================
>
> On 04/05/2019 21:12, Colin Law wrote:
> > 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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