Gnucash upgrade not working

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu May 15 14:45:25 EDT 2014


On May 15, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Thursday 15 May 2014 17:34:08 Kevin Rutherford wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Geert Janssens
>> 
>> <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>>> So there are only two ways to build gnucash as Derek already noted:
>>> - From the *official* tar balls found on the gnucash webpage
>>> - By cloning the git repository
>> 
>> Thanks for all the help -- I'll try again later.
>> In the meantime, I would point out that the wiki is misleading.
>> Consider the sentence:
>> 
>> "For the very latest source code, get the sources from Git or use the
>> latest release source file of type gnucash-<version>.tar.gz."
>> 
>> towards the top of the build instructions. I'm a long-time github
>> user, and so I know that tagged releases can be downloaded as
>> tarballs. When I looked, there was indeed a tarball on github with the
>> expected name. So I downloaded it and started from there. So may I
>> suggest a slight re-phrasing:
>> 
>> "If you want to build from the very latest source, clone the github
>> repository [link]; otherwise to build an 'official' version, download
>> the source tarball from [link]."
> 
> That's a fine improvement. Please go ahead and fix this yourself. The 
> wiki is meant to be edited by the whole community :)
> 
> You do need to create an account though. This is done to fend of 
> spammers :(
>> 
>> By the way, can anyone point me to the *official* tarballs? Because I
>> can't see a link from the wiki...
> http://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml
> Right before the title "Old stable release". This page can be reached 
> from the front page by clicking on "More Downloads (Source, 
> Development,...)" on the big download block top right.

Since he’d have to wait a week after creating an account, I fixed it. I left the existing pointer to our Git wiki page, which explains in more detail how to clone the repo, for the git part, pointed to the SourceForge files page for tarballs, and added a warning about GitHub tarballs.

Regards,
John Ralls




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