Help for the guru-less

[Lewis Overton]

How about some advice to the less guru-istic on
using open source software like GnuCash. If this
isn't the right place for such a questions, tell me.

Basically, I'm intimidated. The discussions about problems
installing 2.0.5 are beyond my ability to readily
resolve, sometimes even to understand. I suspect I'm
not alone in this.

Of more concern is the idea that upgrades to g-wrap
or aqbanking or goffice could break 2.0.4. Since I
depend on gnucash (read here: nice program!) I'm
reluctant to upgrade ANYTHING. How can I tell what
is reasonably save and what is risky?

Comparing GC dependencies with outdated items reveals
that some overlap occurs (those marked "y") are both
outdated and used by GC. On my MacBook ...

The following installed MacPorts are outdated:
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aqbanking                      2.2.6_0 < 2.2.7_0         y
db44                           4.4.20_0 < 4.4.20_1       n
evolution-data-server          1.8.2_0 < 1.8.3_0         n
g-wrap                         1.3.4_3 < 1.3.4_4         y
glib2                          2.12.7_0 < 2.12.9_0       y
goffice                        0.2.1_0 < 0.3.5_0         y
gtk2                           2.10.7_0 < 2.10.9_0       n - but ...
gwenhywfar                     2.5.1_0 < 2.5.3_0         n
liboil                         0.3.10_0 < 0.3.10_2       n
libpcap                        0.9.4_0 < 0.9.5_0         n
libpng                         1.2.15_0 < 1.2.16_0       n
p5-archive-zip                 1.16_0 < 1.18_0           n
pango                          1.14.9_0 < 1.14.10_0      n
scrollkeeper                   0.3.14_1 < 0.3.14_3       n

GnuCash dependencies (from MacPorts)
------------------------------------

aqbanking
g-wrap
gconf
glib1
glib2
gnucash-docs
goffice
libgnomeprintui
libgnomeui
libgsf
libgtkhtml3
p5-finance-quote
p5-xml-parser
popt
slib-guile