On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 2:06 PM Brian M. Sutin <gnuca...@skewray.com> wrote:
> Ubuntu is now up to 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish." Apparently Ubuntu doesn't > make much effort to get the most recent Gnucash. > You're not on the latest Ubuntu (which is currently 19.04 "Disco," and in a few weeks will be 19.10 "Eoan"). However upgrading Ubuntu will only get you up to GnuCash 3.4 unless you build it yourself or get it from somewhere else. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu HOWEVER hold off on upgrading Ubuntu until you are sure you don't have a problem with your GnuCash data file. [By the way, Ubuntu gets its GnuCash via Debian, and the one volunteer who puts the package into Debian is behind on packaging. Fortunately it looks like he packaged GnuCash 3.6 for Debian, but it won't make it into Ubuntu until next year.] I am still thinking that way-back-when Gnucash copied my files config > stupid, and having a more recent version try again may solve the problem. > If your configuration files have gotten corrupted I don't know whether upgrading GnuCash will necessarily help. Fortunately as long as you have a good backup of your data file you can probably move the bad config files out of the way and let GnuCash re-create them. I believe the only thing that gets stored in your configuration files that you might lose permanently is your customized reports. 1) First of all make sure you have good backups of your GnuCash data. 2) Some of the older 2.6.x GnuCash packages on Ubuntu had a bug that was easily worked around by installing the package python-gnucash so that's the first thing I would suggest. I doubt that's your issue but it's easy to install and it can't hurt. 3) To help diagnose the exact crash, open a terminal in Ubuntu and type gnucash and report back here what error messages get printed on the terminal when it crashes. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ 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.
