Steve, are you sure it is worth all this effort? If the flatpak nightly and stable builds become available then they will be perfectly acceptable for Ubuntu.
Colin On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 17:27, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: > > On 1/22/19 8:08 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Jan 22, 2019, at 7:01 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: > >> > >> Looking for someone more knowledgeable than I. Where did I go wrong? > >> > >> I uninstalled my locally built gnucash (sudo make uninstall) and cleaned > >> the system (sudo apt autoremove) then started with these debian files: > >> > > [snip] > > > >> --> whereis gnucash > >> gnucash: /etc/gnucash /usr/local/etc/gnucash /usr/local/lib/gnucash > >> > >> --> gnucash > >> > >> Command 'gnucash' not found, but can be installed with: > >> > >> sudo apt install gnucash > >> > >> --> sudo apt install gnucash > >> Reading package lists... Done > >> Building dependency tree > >> Reading state information... Done > >> gnucash is already the newest version (1:3.4). > >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > >> > >> > >> SMB: At this point I decided to remove the packages and see if my local > >> build would install and run > > [snip] > > > >> > >> SMB: And gnucash works. So why didn't installing the debian package work? > > It appears from the dump that it didn’t complete installing because the > > Finance::Quote dependencies (which should be optional) and the jqplot > > dependency (needed for making chart reports, not optional) weren’t > > installed, but apt marked it as installed anyway. If you really care you > > could uninstall and reinstall the “official” gnucash.deb and see if it > > works. If it doesn’t then it would seem that something’s messed up and you > > should confer with Dimitry to figure out what it is. > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > > Removed my local build and installed the repository version (2.6.19 is > what it found). That worked. > > Dimitry isn't interested in helping. > > > > -- > Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM > stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com > kg...@arrl.net > 253-350-0166 > ------------------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
