Jeff, You may find this page helpful to unistall the flatpak version. https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-flatpak-uninstall/
How did you install GC 4.2. If you built it from source and still have the source and build directories it was installed from theneither $sudo ninja uninstall or $sudo make uninstall run in the build directory in a terminal should uninstall it. If you installed 4.2 from the sickly life ppa you should be able to remove it with $sudo apt remove --auto-remove gnucash If not it will be a manual uninstall as per the instructions here https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/Uninstall_Gnucash_Ubuntu. You need to be fairly careful uninstalling manually it is the method of last resort. Don't delete your desktop icons/shortcuts. You may need to edit them and change the path to the gnucash executable depending on how and where you install it but you should be able to change the path to the gnucash executable and leave the rest of the instruction for the file to open unchanged, Possibly the only way to get 4.9 installed is to build it from source or to use flathub. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux The main problem is ensuring all the dependencies and header files for them are installed. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies sometimes you will find the library has a slightly different name and occasionally there will be a library which is assumed to be installed by default which may be missing. $apt-cache search <string> is a command which can be used to locate the specific library names and what is available on your OS version <string> can be a substring of the library name which identifies it eg "swig" will lsit the swig2.0 and swig3.0 library if available. You can generally use the most recent versions of most libraries unless the use of a specific version is identified in the README.dependencies file in the downloaded source files. (I haven't updated the dependency list since V3 so substitute the version number listed in the README.dependencies file if it is different. I used to do that after I upgraded to a new Linux MInt version but their version upgrade is now so good I have never had to completely reinstall the OS since Linux Mint 19.1 so I have never had to reinstall all the dpendencies When you run the cmake command in the build directoryit will generally stop with an error message if a dependency is missing. The easiest procedure is to load the depnendency that was missing and then rerun the cmake command until it completes without error. Once that is done youcan run the build commands and the install commands. Once you get it built successfully for the first time it is usually a piece of cake to build and install subsequent Gnucash version Keep the source directory and the buidl directory as the uninstalling them is easiest by running $sudo ninja uninstall in the build directory. David Cousens On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 02:12 -0600, Jeff wrote: > I currently have GNC Version 4.2 installed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. At the > recommendation of a former post for info I also have 4.8 from flat-hub > somewhere on my system (have yet to find out where or how to remove it). > > 4.2 is is in the launch bar and has desktop icons to multiple sets of > books. The only way I have found to run 4.8 is in software manager and > have to change books manually (which 4.8 also had the nasty habit of > creating backup files on the desktop for some reason). > > 1) How do I uninstall both versions? > > 2) how do I install 4.9 (preferably without Flathub)? I also need > desktop icons to launch GNC from the desktop for multiple sets of books > (lucky me, I am the accountant/tax man for the entire family! I won't > even go into what condition I receive financial records in). > > I am not opposed to building from source code but; all of my tries have > so far failed miserably on GNC. > > It's a simple mater under Windoze but so far nothing I have tried works > on Ubuntu. And yes, I need the desktop icons for each set of books as > the icons are linked to each individuals books across multiple drives on > remote servers not just mine. My memory has had to many read/write > cycles to keep track of who is on which server drive and file name. > _______________________________________________ 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.
