[GNC] GnuCash 4.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[Derek Zehr]

What's the best way to get this version 4.1 off that I built? Dependency 
issues with libboost are making it seem impossible to uninstall it. I 
still have the build directory, and ran "sudo ninja uninstall." Before I 
trace down and try to fix the errors it's giving me, can you tell me if 
there's other ways to just delete the existing gnucash 
files/installation and just start over?

Thanks,

Derek

On 2020-11-28 5:35 p.m., Derek Zehr wrote:
> Thank you everybody. I did build it on Ubuntu 18. I thought that was 
> implied by the fact I was running version 4.1, since the package 
> managers don't have that new of a version. Sorry.
>
> I will probably just install from the distribution, if Adrien says he 
> couldn't built it on 20.04.
>
> Will I have an issue with my gnucash files if I go from 4.1 to 3.8?
>
> Derek
>
> On 2020-11-28 2:41 p.m., John Ralls wrote:
>> This sounds like you're trying to run a GnuCash built for Ubuntu 
>> 18.04 on 20.04. Boost (and ICU) version their libraries so that you 
>> have to at least re-link (and often recompile) anything that depends 
>> on them when you upgrade. Apt should have taken care of pulling in 
>> the correspondingly linked GnuCash unless you built it yourself.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 28, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
>>> <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I recall having this problem when trying to build on 20.04. I never 
>>> solved it and gave up. (I use Mac as my daily driver)
>>>
>>> I would think there is a file with a requirement for 1.65 hardcoded 
>>> in error, when it should be looking for >= 1.65.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>>
>>> On 11/27/20 5:27 PM, Derek Zehr wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I recently updated from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04. Which is a 
>>>> major thing to do, and can't expect to go without a couple hiccoughs.
>>>> Since the upgrade, GnuCash doesn't start. Here is the output when I 
>>>> try to launch it from the Terminal.
>>>> ~$ gnucash
>>>> gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: 
>>>> libboost_program_options.so.1.65.1: cannot open shared object file: 
>>>> No such file or directory
>>>> Libboost is only available in version 1.67 and 1.71 on the distro's 
>>>> package manager. Do I need to manually install 1.65?
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