Eric, looks like the old version didn't cleanup properly.
Here's an alternative installation method...it's what I used to install
3.5 this morning.
Follow the instructions to remove version 3.4, paying attention to the
instruction to run
sudo apt autoremove
after removing the three main packages.
The autoremove will take care of the large number of files apt reports
are no longer required when you remove the other packages. They must be
removed from the system. Version 3.5 of Gnucash will install new
versions of most of those files and simply replace the ones that don't
change.
apt should report no errors after the autoremove operation.
When the cleanup of the old version is done, navigate to the directory
where you downloaded and uncompressed the archive holding the three
packages for version 3.5.
Starting with Gnucash-common_3.5_all.deb (this one must go first) double
click on the .deb to start the dpkg installer. Click on the install
button and enter your user password when prompted. The process should
complete with no reported errors and the install button will be replaced
with a remove button. If you see a warning that no repository is
associated with the package, it is not an error. Ignore it.
Repeat for the gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb and python3-gnucash_3.5_amd64.deb
packages.
If no errors are reported, Gnucash 3.5 is properly installed.
Ron Morse
On 5/4/19 12:23 PM, Eric Coates wrote:
Stephan
Although I???m about to relate some problems I???ve had with your
GnuCash 3.5 on Ubuntu 19.04 before I do I want to say that I appreciate
your efforts (and those of your ???hand holders???!) on providing tools
to the community. Sincerely, thank you.
My situation is that I upgraded to 19.04 just two or three weeks ago and
I don???t think I???ve done anything of such significance as to screw up
the system. I was running GnuCash 3.4 (the default in 19.04) but hit
problems (discussed elsewhere). Your solution seemed to be a gift from
heaven.
The first two Terminal commands (which with the third, I think, need to
be run in the Downloads/gnucash_3.5 folder) ran with no problems but the
third gave the following output:
/eric@Magus-4:~/Downloads/gnucash_3.5$ sudo apt install ./*3.5*.deb/
/[sudo] password for eric: /
/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'/
/Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have/
/requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable/
/distribution that some required packages have not yet been created/
/or been moved out of Incoming./
/The following information may help to resolve the situation:/
/The following packages have unmet dependencies./
/gnucash : Depends: libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~) but it is not installable/
/Depends: libpython3.6 (>= 3.6.5) but it is not installable/
/Recommends: gnucash-docs but it is not going to be installed/
/Recommends: pythone3-gnucash but it is not installable/
/python3-gnucash : Depends: libpython3.6 (>= 3.6.5) but it is not
installable/
/Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.7.3-1 is to be installed/
/E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages./
/eric@Magus-4:~/Downloads/gnucash_3.5$ /
Although my wife would probably disagree, I???m reasonably good at
following instructions but those error messages left me somewhat
baffled. I???ve done some investigations using Synaptic with the
following results:
?????? There appears to be no libicu60 available, but libicu63 (version
63.1-6) is installed
?????? There appears to be no libpython3.6 available, but libpython3.7
(version 3.7.3-2) is installed
?????? gnucash-docs is installed (as version 3.4-1)
?????? A search for libpythone3-gnucash (and libpython3-gnucash) give no
results
?????? python3 (at version 3.7.3-1) is installed
?????? Selecting ???Custom Filters??? and the ???Broken??? category
shows no entries
To my untutored eyes, it looks as if my system is too ???advanced??? -
but what do I know.
Can you indicate how I may proceed - without my GnuCash I can???t spend
any money!
Best wishes
Eric
PS: This document was constructed in LibreOffice, experience suggests
that the formatting and some characters might get messed up. If so,
apologies in advance.
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