Gnucash won't start

Question

After new installation of Ubuntu 16.04 freshly installed through apt-get Gnucash not working in normal mode. It will starts only in terminal & and requires sudo "sudo Gnucash". After several attempts of reinstall Gnucash nothing has changed. How to fix it to start without terminal and without sudo root permissions?

Answer 1

In terminal, type:

$ dpkg -l *gnucash* (that's a lower case L, and *'s are required)

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  gnucash        1:2.6.14-1~g amd64        personal and small-business finan
ii  gnucash-common 1:2.6.14-1~g all          common files for the financial-ac
ii  gnucash-docs   2.6.13-2     all          Documentation for gnucash, a pers
ii  python-gnucash 1:2.6.14-1~g amd64        Gnucash interface for Python

If you don't see python-gnucash with ii in front of its name in this list, install it using Synaptic.

Start Synaptic from the dash, click the RELOAD icon, click the SEARCH icon, enter "python-gnucash", in the results pane, mark it for installation, click the APPLY icon.