Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 9:07 PM From: "Cliff McDiarmid" <cliffhan...@gardener.com> To: "Colin Law" <clan...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: gnucash coredump gnome >On 19 December 2017 at 22:19, cliffhan...@gardener.com <cliffhan...@gardener.com> wrote: > Using Linux with gnome see message for ver. Gnucash was installed with dpkg. >Oh, you mean Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS. You say you installed using >dpkg, do you mean apt-get install? If you used dpkg where did you get >?the deb file? >To give us more information what do see if you run in a terminal: >apt-cache policy gnucash >But first run >sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade >which will make sure everything is up to date (dist-upgrade does not >try to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu, it just makes sure >everything is up to date for that version). Obviously report if that >shows any errors > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: gnucash coredump gnome > From: Colin Law > To: Cliff McDiarmid > CC: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > > On 19 December 2017 at 19:20, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Just joined. i have been using Quicken for 24years running under Wine! >> It's now time to change, problems with older versions of it. >> >> I'm running Gnome 16.04LTS. But I have problems with my first foray into >> Gnucash. It is coredumping without starting, version 1:2.6.12-1. Other >> versions also dump. I've run it with Strace and the log is attached. AFAIK >> all dependencies are satisfied. > > Which OS are you using and how did you install gnucash? > > Colin
Thanks Colin and all, but in the end I managed to compile from source and it started first time! I had wanted to do this originally but had problems with guille. All I've got to do now is learn the damn thing. Cliff _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.