A synopsis of what I did to get V3.5 loaded and working on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS OS. The files:MyNamed.gnucashMyNamed.gnucash.20190304113239.logMyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.logMyNamed.gnuchas.20190304124553.gnucashare in /home/larry and gnucash-3.5 is in /home/larry/Downloads. I downloaded the three files by Stephen Butler off of Google Drive.--Thanks for that information as I had not seen it any other place before. Those three files were put in /home/larry/Downloads. Per instructions I did 'sudo apt install ./*_3.5_*.deb' in my /home/larry directory as that was where my gnucash files were. It came back with:"Reading package lists... Done""E: Unsupported file ./*_3.5_*.deb given on commandline" I then went to /home/larry/Downloads directory and entered the same thing. It came back with"Reading package lists... Done""Building dependency tree""Reading state information... Done""Note, selecting 'gnucash' instead of './gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb""Note, selecting 'gnucash-common' instead of './gnucash-common_3.5_all.deb""Note, selecting 'python3-gnucash' instead of './python3-gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb""Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" The three notes bothered me but I went ahead and answered Y.It took about an hour and a half to do the download/programming. Now when I push the Super Key and then push G the gnucash icon shows up, which I click on, and when I check Help>About it says its GnuCash V3.5. Hurray! On the terminal I run 'which gnucash' and get back "usr/bin/gnucash".On the terminal I also run 'sudo dpkg -l | grep gnucash' and get backii gnucash 1:3.5 amd64 personal and small-business financial-accounting software ii gnucash-common 1:3.5 all common files for the financial-accounting software Gnucash ii gnucash-docs 3.4-0+bionic~ppa1 all Documentation for gnucash, a personal finance tracking program ii python3-gnucash 1:3.5 amd64 Gnucash interface for Python Everything seems to be okay now. Thanks for all your help.--Larry
>I don?t know if you even had 3.4 installed unless you knew for a fact you >were once running it. (If that is the case, you might have earlier removed >2.6.19) **Yes, the Help>About said it was V3.4. >It looks like you downloaded the 3.5 source. (you mentioned it contained >directories and files) >You can build from that source download using the wiki instructions, or use >the pre-built deb packages as Colin suggests. If you choose not to build from >source, you can safely delete that gnucash-3.5 directory. **I'm not a programmer so I stick to official released stuff. >Do not delete the files ending in .gnucash. The first one `MyNamed.gnucash` is >your main data file. The last one `MyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.gnucash` is >a backup file. The other two are log files as their file extension suggests. >Keeping the logs and the backup is optional. Just don?t delete the main data >file. >I would still run the dpkg -l command to make sure there are no other versions >on your system before installing 3.5: >sudo dpkg -l | grep gnucash >(no response and a return to the command prompt means nothing else concerning >gnucash is installed) >You can also perform a: >which gnucash >to see if the system thinks an executable with that name is located anywhere, >but I don?t expect it will find anything. >Regards, >Adrien _______________________________________________ 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.
