[GNC] GnC 3.5 for Disco

Sun May 5 12:03:35 EDT 2019

On 5/5/19 5:06 AM, Eric Coates wrote:
> 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.
And if you click on the Trusty-... one, you will get both 3.4 and 3.5. 
Work your way down until you just see files and not folders!!
>
> As always, my thanks to everybody for their time and help.
>
> Take care
>
> Eric
>
> =====================================
>
>
>
> 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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