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. Cheers David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
