Hi,
Richard Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>>>I used gnucash for quite a while on FreeBSD, using version 1.8.9.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to upgrade to the current version, but it seems to drop a load
>>>of my data when importing the old accounts file.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>What do you mean by this? What gets "dropped"? GnuCash shouldn't
>>drop data, but also there has not been a lot of testing going from 1.8
>>to 2.2 without going through the 2.0 release. It SHOULDN'T be a
>>problem, because the XML format doesn't have a lot of differences.
>>
>>
>
> What I mean is that some account totals are different in 2.2 to what
> they were in 1.8, and quite a few line items don't appear in the
> affected accounts.
What account totals are different?
Have you looked in those accounts to compare what you see from before?
> It seems like some of the transactions just haven't been loaded.
I doubt that they are not loaded. That seems pretty far fetched.
> I'm not 100% certain that there isn't just a new filter or something
> which is causing some transactions to be hidden (but why would that
> affect the totals?).
That is true. Do you have multiple currencies? Stocks?
>>> 2) How do I build gnucash from source on ubuntu "heron"?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>apt-get build-dep gnucash
>>
>>
>
> Yes, I've done that, and it did install loads of packages. However, I
> still get "Unknown library `print`" from "gnome-config --libs print"
>
> Sorry for not mentioning this straight away, but I'm trying to build
> the 1.8.9 release, because my plan was to double check the differences
> in behaviour, and then compare the code which loads the data between
> the two.
OOOOHHHHH!!!!! You didn't say you wanted to build 1.8! That's a
COMPLETELY different animal.
> Is it still possible to build 1.8.9? Do you think that the "unknown
> library" issue is due to trying to build too old a version?
I have no idea. It requires a complete Gnome-1 build environment,
which probably isn't available anymore.
> I haven't yet tried to build 2.2, but I'll have a go tonight.
>
>
> Are you running ubuntu? Does "gnome-config --libs print" work for you?
> If so, can you determine which package provided the printConf.sh file
> in /usr/lib (this is what "gnome-config --libs print" defers to, I
> think).
Nope, I am not running Ubuntu. And Fedora 7 doesn't have Gnome-1
anymore.
>> there has not been a lot of testing going from 1.8
>> to 2.2 without going through the 2.0 release.
>
> I could try loading the accounts through 1.8 -> 2.0 -> 2.2, if you
> think that would help?
It might?
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rich
-derek
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