Upgrade to 1.8.11-0fc3?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Steve, please reply to the list so others may share in what happens ;-)

If you are using synaptic then you're (if I understand correctly) using 
a Debian based system. Some of the Debian-based systems (besides plain 
debian) are Knoppix, Ubuntu, anybody else got any... that's all I can 
think of off the top of my head but there are lots of 'em. I see from 
your post that you're looking at 1.8.11-0fc3 would that be Fedora Core? 
don't know.

Current version of gnucash in Debian is 1.8.10-12 so if you're running 
Debian unstable or some combination of testing and unstable, you should 
be able to upgrade to 1.8.10-12 easily.

if you are not running a mostly unstable deb, then it may be a bit 
troublesome to upgrade as you could break some other stuff, BUT I think 
the gnc dependencies are far enough behind that you should be okay.

If you want to compile a newer version, (like 1.8.11) then you need to

apt-get build-dep gnucash

before you try the compile.

All this is only really useful for Debian systems, and I know naught 
about others...

HTH

Andrew


JUNIPER wrote:
> Well, I've got to expose more of my ignorance here. I use Synaptic 
> Package Manager - is that the distribution? If not, how do I find out 
> what it is?
> 
> Yesterday I held my breath and had Synaptic upgrade Firefox and T-Bird, 
> and all seems to be fine. I hesitate doing more because a number of 
> times when I upgraded Windows programs I created problems for myself...
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to help!
> 
> Steve
> 
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 
>> I can't think of any issues I've had from upgrading, but Maf. King's 
>> note about compiling is relevant. What distribution are you using?
>>
>> A
>>
>> JUNIPER wrote:
>>
>>> I'm fairly new to linux. Gnu 1.8.9-2 seems to work fine. Is there any 
>>> reason to (or not to) upgrade to 1.8.11-0fc3, which seems to be the 
>>> latest version?
>>> Steve
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>>
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