[GNC] Changes in gnucash 4 vs 3

[Peter Ratzlaff]

On 3/10/22 10:54, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> On 3/10/22 9:12 AM, Peter Ratzlaff wrote:
>> Income accounts now have negative balances. Same for equity. Liability 
>> balance signs are flipped as well.
> 
> That's a preference. Did other preferences not carry over?
> 
> Investigate the Wiki for GnuCash storage locations and check to see if 
> your preference file is intact. (and if not, you can restore it from a 
> backup)
> 
> Try Actions > Check & Repair > Check & Repair All. That should be done 
> after each major version jump. (One would think it should automatically 
> run on such an upgrade, and maybe it does, but sometimes it might not 
> work I suppose)
> 
> 
>> I have a saved report which generates a plot of assets over time, and 
>> that report no longer displays the plot. The table of values vs time 
>> is still printed and the numbers look correct. This seems like it 
>> could be some sort of unmet graphics package dependency, but there is 
>> no error message generated on the terminal or in the GUI.
> 
> The Wiki also has a list of dependencies you can check.
> 
> How did you install GnuCash?
> 

Yes, I'm beginning to see that this is all about preferences not being 
carried over. Even when I modify preferences in 4.9, they are not being 
saved.

I installed with the Ubuntu 22.04 repository packages.