[GNC] Old-New user with an upgrade problem

[John Angelico]

Thanks again Adrien.

You are correct, I did upgrade from Jessie.

I have just checked my own update log, which I save out of the terminal
session.

It shows a lot which has been held back, and I also ran autoremove to clear
out a lot of unused stuff. There were plenty of python items there but I
didn't see python-GnuCash or python3-GnuCash.

Installed:
  python-asn1crypto python-backports.functools-lru-cache python-certifi
  python-soupsieve python2 python2-dev python2-minimal python3-certifi
  python3-debconf python3-distro-info python3-feedparser python3-idna
  python3-musicbrainzngs python3-mutagen python3-pyinotify

Upgraded:
  python python-apt
  python-apt-common python-bs4 python-cairo python-cffi-backend
python-chardet
  python-cryptography python-dbus python-debian python-debianbts python-dev
  python-enum34 python-feedparser python-gi python-gi-cairo python-gobject-2
  python-gtk2 python-html5lib python-httplib2 python-idna python-libxml2
  python-lxml python-minimal python-musicbrainzngs python-mutagen
python-numpy
  python-openssl python-pkg-resources python-pyasn1 python-pycurl
  python-pysimplesoap python-qt4-dbus python-requests python-setuptools
  python-six python-talloc python-urllib3 python-utidylib
python-webencodings
  python2.7 python2.7-dev python2.7-minimal python3-chardet
  python3-cupshelpers python3-debian python3-debianbts python3-httplib2
  python3-louis python3-pexpect python3-pkg-resources python3-ptyprocess
  python3-pyatspi python3-pysimplesoap python3-reportbug python3-requests
  python3-six python3-software-properties python3-speechd python3-urllib3
  python3-xdg

Kept back:
  python-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5
  python-pyqt5 python-qt4 python-sip python3 python3-apt python3-brlapi
  python3-cairo python3-cups python3-dbus python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5
  python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-minimal python3-pil python3-pycurl
  python3-pyqt5 python3-renderpm python3-reportlab python3-reportlab-accel
  python3-sip python3-smbc python3-uno

Removed when I ran apt autoremove:
  python-feedparser python-libxml2
  python-musicbrainzngs python-mutagen python-pyasn1 python-pyinotify
  python-utidylib python3-brlapi python3-louis python3-pyatspi
python3-speechd
  python3-xdg

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 16:23, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> The VM finished and restarted. Sure enough, python3.7.3 is installed by
> default.
>
> If you upgraded from a previous release, you might have pinned python to
> an earlier version and forgot, or the upgrade did not go as planned.
>

I don't know how to do that, so probably not.


> If this was a fresh install of Buster, I'm not sure what happened, or
> why it won't upgrade to python3.7.
>

That would be logical, but I don''t recognise what a full install of python
3.7 would look like


> I was able to successfully install GnuCash 3.4 (albeit with a ton of
> dependencies!) and it started just fine.
>
> I then followed the advice in the Wiki:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian, added the buster-backports repo
> and upgraded to GnuCash 3.10, which went without issue, and it started
> up just fine. (3.11 is the final 3.x version)
>
> I didn't try the 4.1 Flatpak, but I can't imagine too much difficulty
> there. (I have easily installed it on Ubuntu, but not debian)
>
> As noted before, it is possible using apt-get to skip dependencies.
> (dpkg can do it too) But that might result in issues down the road when
> doing updates and remembering what you did now that might cause them.
>

I don't think I've done that either.


> > Are you certain you're running Buster?
> >
> > On a whim I decided to spin up a VM for it. While watching the install,
> > I noticed it installed python3.7. I'll verify when it is finished.
> >
> > Did you by chance attempt to upgrade from an earlier release? (Stretch,
> > Jessie?)
>

IIRC, I installed 2.6 from a separate download rather than through the
repos. I wonder if I should just completely uninstall GnuCash and start
afresh?

-- 
Best regards
John Angelico