gnucash in debian

[David Reiser]

On May 20, 2006, at 1:56 PM, don Paolo Benvenuto wrote:

> El mar, 16-05-2006 a las 11:11 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG 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.)
>
> A question: does it make sense to rename the old gnucash executable to
> gnucash1 and install the unstable package? That would permit to keep
> using the gnome1 gnucash and testing the gnome2 one.
>
> Would gnucash1 keep working?

The generic answer is the two versions of gnucash can't be in the  
same $PREFIX, and there might be problems if either version is in the  
default location. Debian may be different, however. YMMV.

>
> -- 
> Buon Cammino!
>
> don Paolo Benvenuto
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