Crash on Quick-Fill

[Derek Atkins]

"Tommy Trussell" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:

> On 1/28/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> 2.0.4 is current.
>> This bug has long since been fixed.
>> You should update.
>
> I was hoping I could use the standard packaged versions in Ubuntu, but
> there goes that idea. The latest package available for Ubuntu (due for
> the 7.04 release in April) is GnuCash 2.02. So maybe I need to find
> out how to help the package maintainer create a current package,
> though it may be too late.

Weird.  I know Debian has had 2.0.4 out for a while...  I know Debian
has a 2.0.4 package.

> I tried to compile the svn version under 6.06 (Dapper LTS) on a ppc
> box but finally gave up after jumping through lots of hoops. I think
> the place I gave up was missing swik dependencies. I have not yet
> tried the svn version on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy (the current release).

WTF is "swik"?  Do you mean "swig"?  Yeah, you need a fairly modern
version of swig to build from SVN Trunk (although once it turns into
2.2 tarballs you wont need swig to build from the tarball).

> If I have to revert to GnuCash version 1.8.12 to avoid the crash, can
> I keep using the same data files after 2.0.1 has touched them, or do I
> need to re-import my old data from scratch in order to downgrade?

It should work, provided you didn't use any new-in-2.0 features, like
budgets.

-derek

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