[GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly

[David H]

4.4 has been available via flatpak for a while now...

You should — also if no new GnuCash version was announced — sometimes run

sudo flatpak update  # sudo is only required for systemwide installations


On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:31, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I did an apt remove and apt install, and now /usr/bin/gnucash=3.8 supports
> the finance quote again.  My gui is still 3.9 flatpak, unless it bugs out
> on me, and then I can use a term to use 3.8, perhaps more stable.  I still
> wonder when 4.4 will come to ubuntu 20.04 lts, apparently the current most
> recent ubuntu lts.  After having boinc bow out when I went to 20.04 lts, I
> was afraid I was losing another app to a declasse OS!
> Just in time for end of month numbers!
> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ /usr/bin/gnucash --versionGnuCash 3.8Build ID:
> 3.8b+(2019-12-29)dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> To: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Sat, Feb 27, 2021 4:56 pm
> Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash finance quote not installed properly
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 8:36 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> PS: I see the version I run is under flatpak under gnome-shell, and the
> one in /usr/bin is the corrupted version used for quotes.
> dgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ /usr/bin/gnucash --version/usr/bin/gnucash: error while
> loading shared libraries: libboost_locale.so.1.74.0: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directorydgp at dgp-p6803w:~$ pse gnucashUID
>       PID    PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMDdgp      1405038    1966  0
> 09:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/flatpak-bwrap --args 30 gnucashdgp
>   1405050 1405038  0 09:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/flatpak-bwrap
> --args 30 gnucashdgp      1405051 1405050 13 09:20 ?        00:01:17
> gnucashdgp at dgp-p6803w:~$
>
>
> The one in /usr/bin/gnucash is NOT the flatpak one, so you must have a
> partially installed / broken version of GnuCash installed on your system.
> The command to launch the flatpak one is
> $ flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
> And you can pass additional arguments to it. SO for example:
>
> $ flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash --version   GnuCash 4.4  Build ID:
> Flathub 4.4-4
>
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