ANNOUNCE: Release of GnuCash 1.9.8 (Release Candidate)

[Bill Wohler]

Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jrposting at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:38 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote:
>> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.8 aka
>> "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash", the first release 
>> candidate
>> of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead
>> to the stable version 2.0.0.
>
> I just wanted to point out that this has made it to Debian Sid and I was
> able to install it to my Dapper box via Synaptic - but had to use
> (thanks to Liz again):
>
> sudo dpkg --force-overwrite
> --install /var/cache/apt/archives/gnucash-common_1.9.8-1_all.deb
>
> and
>
> sudo dpkg --force-overwrite
> --install /var/cache/apt/archives/gnucash_1.9.8-1_i386.deb

On Debian proper, I found that the second solution proposed by
aptitude did the trick (I have a mostly etch system):

[wohler at olgas:867]$ sudo aptitude install gnucash=1.9.8-2
The following packages are BROKEN:
  gnucash
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  libtasn1-3 libtasn1-3-bin
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
Need to get 2126kB of archives. After unpacking 213kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnucash: Depends: gnucash-common (>= 1.9.8-2) but 1.9.7-1 is installed.
           Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but 0.61-6 is installed.
           Depends: libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0) but 1.3.5-1.1 is installed.
           Depends: libgtkhtml3.8-15 (>= 3.10.2) but 3.10.1-1 is installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
gnucash [1.9.7-1 (now)]

Score is -2

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Upgrade the following packages:
gnucash-common [1.9.7-1 (now) -> 1.9.8-2 (unstable)]
libdbus-1-2 [0.61-6 (testing, now) -> 0.62-3 (unstable)]
libgnutls13 [1.3.5-1.1 (testing, now) -> 1.4.0-2 (unstable)]
libgtkhtml3.8-15 [3.10.1-1 (testing, now) -> 3.10.2-1 (unstable)]

Score is -128

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  libtasn1-3 libtasn1-3-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gnucash gnucash-common libdbus-1-2 libgnutls13 libgtkhtml3.8-15
5 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
Need to get 6500kB of archives. After unpacking 184kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
...


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