[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 198, Issue 17

[Adrien Monteleone]

You have a few issues with dependencies, but the biggest one is GnuCash 3.7 wants boost 1.67 and your repos (based on stock Ubunutu 18.04) only offer 1.65.

Perhaps you could add a ppa, or build libboost 1.67 from scratch, but I’ve not attempted that route.

I don’t know if Mint has a similar upgrade path like the stock Ubuntu HWE stack. Those are supposed to only advance the kernel and video drivers as far as I’m aware, but if they enable more recent backports, that could help. (again, not sure if Mint has such a feature)

Maybe someone else who is either on Mint 19.2 (19.3 is not out yet) or Ubuntu 18.04 and has successfully installed GC 3.7 can lend a hand.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. I’m in the middle of setting up a build environment for 3.7 on Ubuntu 19.04 and running into a few issues myself with old versions of boost.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 8:40 PM, Elmar <etschme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks - I did exactly that (downloaded all 3 packages) but I got no joy:
> 
> ets at Shinobi-L ~/Downloads $ sudo apt install ./*3.7*.deb
> [sudo] password for ets:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Note, selecting 'gnucash' instead of './gnucash_3.7-0_amd64.deb'
> Note, selecting 'gnucash-common' instead of './gnucash-common_3.7-0_all.deb'
> Note, selecting 'python3-gnucash' instead of './python3-gnucash_3.7-0_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: libboost-date-time1.67.0 but it is not installable
>            Depends: libboost-filesystem1.67.0 but it is not installable
>            Depends: libboost-locale1.67.0 but it is not installable
>            Depends: libboost-regex1.67.0 (>= 1.67.0-10) but it is not installable
>            Depends: libboost-system1.67.0 but it is not installable
>            Depends: libicu63 (>= 63.1-1~) but it is not installable
>            Depends: libofx7 (>= 1:0.9.14) but 1:0.9.12-1 is to be installed
>  python3-gnucash : Depends: python3 (>= 3.7~) but 3.6.7-1~18.04 is to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> ets at Shinobi-L ~/Downloads $
> 
> - Elmar