[GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

Sun May 5 08:06:21 EDT 2019

Good Morning

Short report:

It's now all working and, for those who have been following a different 
thread to do with European share prices not appearing in the Price 
Editor window, European share prices are now appearing in the Price 
Editor window - John (Ralls) was right, the problem is solved with 3.5.

Slightly longer report:

I was the main reason why it didn't work last night, I was using a 
version of Stephen's files that I downloaded prior to my upgrading to 
19.04 (which, I assume, were for 18.04) and not the more recent ones. I 
saw Stephen's note of this morning, downloaded the new versions and ran 
all three of the commands and - everything worked. So now I can go and 
spend some money!

Only peripherally related: On the Google drive that Stephen used there's 
a not-exactly-clear feature. Clicking on Stephen's link brings up a 
screen with two boxes (marked Disco and Trusty), exactly where you click 
in those boxes determines what happens, if you click on the folder icon 
(which changes to the common symbol for download) you get a zipped file 
containing all three of the necessary files, clicking on the text takes 
you to another page from which you can download files individually.

As always, my thanks to everybody for their time and help.

Take care

Eric

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On 05/05/2019 08:40, Colin Law wrote:
> 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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