Just pointing out that the instructions say "cd to your download folder (or where you have the above 3 files)" which you didn't do the first time round.
Colin On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 20:02, Lawrence Joy <lawrence_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > A synopsis of what I did to get V3.5 loaded and working on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 > LTS OS. The files: > MyNamed.gnucash > MyNamed.gnucash.20190304113239.log > MyNamed.gnucash.20190304124553.log > MyNamed.gnuchas.20190304124553.gnucash > are 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 back > ii 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.
