GnuCash on windows vs Ubuntu

[Laura Lincoln]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:
>
> > There was a version change a while ago that introduced extra top-level
> > root directories when you moved from the newer to an older version.
> > They weren't hard to remove by editing the account tree, though.
> > Anyone remember how many years ago that was?
>
> I believe that was the 2.0 -> 2.2 transition.
>
> > -- hendrik
>
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>
> -derek
>
>
In this case we are talking 2.4 to 2.9. Is that too much of a gap?

Since Ubuntu 8.04 only offers 2.4 how would I install 2.9?