> On May 9, 2018, at 3:19 PM, DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Dennis > > It is probbaly a good idea to uninstall the previous build of 2.6.x before > upgrading. With the changes between 2.6 and 3.1 there may have been changes > in the libraries/library names such that some older libraries may not > necessarilybe overwritten. > > How to remove it will depend upon how you installed it and in which location > you installed it. If you built it from sources and you have retained the > source directory, try changing to the top level source directory or a build > directory if there is one in a terminal and then type > > make uninstall > > if it was installed under your home directory > > or sudo make uninstall > > if it was installed to a system directory like /usr/local or/opt. > > If you didn't retain the source directory and/or build directory then things > get a bit harder. One strategy would be to download the sources for that > version again. Follow the instructions for buidling that version apart from > the "make install" or "sudo make install" at the end. This will recreate a > manifest file. Then issue the "make install" or "sudo make install" in the > top level source directory (if you built them with a build directory then > issue the command in that build directory.) Both Cmake and autotools can be > used on the later 2.6.x versions. > > You can tell where Gnucash is installed using > whereis gnucash > in a shell to list the locations that gnucash was installed to. If the first > part of the path is /usr/local or /opt or another system location ( that is > one not under the /home/dennis tree) then you will need to use sudo as a > prefix to make uninstall. I am not sure if whereis locates installs under > your home directory however. > > > If you installed using apt then > > sudo apt-get remove gnucash > should do the job. > > If you installed from a debian package you downloaded > > sudo dpkg -r gnucash > > should also remove it > > There are instructions on the > > The BuildUbuntu16.04 wiki page has a section for Uninstalling Gnucash as > above. It also has a link and a link to another which has instructions for > manually removing Gnucash. I need to add more to that page but the manual > removal instructions there do work. Note you need to use sudo before any > commands if installed in a system location. > > I would try the instructions above first however as manually deleting things > from system directories > can be hazardous to your system.
You can clear enough to get a clean build by deleting <prefix>/<lib>/gnucash, where <prefix> is the root of the installation--the parent of bin/, etc/, <lib>/, and share/. <lib> is whatever your system calls its library directory: In the old days it was just lib/, but some systems use lib64/ and some use lib/x86_64-gnu-linux or something similar. For example, if you’re installing into $HOME/.local and lib isn’t mangled on your system, rm -rf $HOME/.local/lib/gnucash will delete all of the loadable modules and precompiled guile modules so they don’t interfere with the build. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
