gnucash in debian

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi Fabien

El jue, 18-05-2006 a las 09:44 +0200, Fabien COELHO escribió:
> > Since 1.9.6 is the first official beta, I have uploaded it to the
> > Debian unstable distribution.  (Previous 1.9 releases were only in
> > Debian experimental.)
> Good !
> However I'm not willing to switch my box to unstable just to play and test 
> with the new version. Do you think it would be possible to have a 
> "backports.org" new gnucash version compiled for sarge and/or etch?
> 
> I'm not sure how much work is needed to do that, but I sure would test
> it if it is available.


What I do is to use a chroot. I first create a sarge chroot with
"debootstrap", then chroot into it, change apt sources from stable to
unstable and... that's it, you can play and test the new version in
unstable without disturbing your sarge box :) If you don't know how to
prepare a chroot, please search some howto in google :) I'm currently
testing the spanish translation this way. (thanks Thomas!)

Regards,
Eneko