New Bill - entering a vendor name

[Derek Atkins]

denbigh1974 <denbigh1974 at gmx.net> writes:

> Just to clarify:
> I have been using GnuCash *2.2.9* (copy was built from r17949M on
> 2010-03-23).
> This version *does not autofill* customer name.

Correct, because that version is about 3 years old already.

> After a bit of looking around today, I came across this website
> https://launchpad.net/~randall-songshu/+archive/gnucash
>
> I added the following to my software sources
>    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/randall-songshu/gnucash/ubuntu lucid main 
>    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/randall-songshu/gnucash/ubuntu lucid
> main
>
> I then opened Terminal and typed the following instructions one by one
>    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:randall-songshu/gnucash
>    sudo apt-get update
>    sudo apt-get install gnucash
>
> I then ran GnuCash. The version is now *2.4.2* (copy was built from r20253M
> on 2011-02-09)
> This version *does autofill* customer name, at least on first inspection.
>
> So my immediate problem is solved (although I've yet to discover if I've
> created new problems ). Hope that this is of some help to others using
> Ubuntu 10.04
>
> If anyone knows of a ppa with GnuCash 2.4.11 for Ubuntu 10.04 then please
> could you add a link? Thanks.

I would recommend you NOT use 2.4.2; it is known buggy, and old enough
that I can't even remember all the bugs in it.

Perhaps you can just run: apt-get build-dep gnucash
and then build 2.4.11 from source?

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-derek

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