Updating GC in Jaunty

[Thomas Bullock]

Yvan,

Thanks for your reply.  I will study your reply and try it out.  Will let you know how it goes.

Tom

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: yvan [mailto:yvan.strahm at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:27 AM
> >To: FireFly
> >Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax )
> >Subject: Re: Updating GC in Jaunty
> >
> >FireFly wrote:
> >>> I have installed ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop and found that
> >>> GnuCash is at 2.2.6.  I downloaded and extracted the
> >>> 2.2.9 tar.gz.  So far I cannot see that it was updated
> >>> (the icon and also the About screen both say 2.2.6).
> >>> What do I need to do to update GC to 2.2.9 inside Jaunty?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> My quick read (or the way I've managed to do it)
> >>
> >> Step one, before or after downloading the tar file, run the following
> >command
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
> >>
> >> This gets everything needed to make gnucash
> >>
> >> Step two, unpack everything from the tar file (I always put it on my
> >Desktop, but you can put it anywhere)
> >>
> >> Step three, in terminal, cd to where you copied GNUCash and then
> >run "./configure" in terminal (I believe --help will show you the
> >options, I've NEVER run it with options, but I've been running Ubuntu
> >less than a week now)
> >>
> >> Assuming all is well in Step three
> >>
> >> Step four, same terminal run "make" (may take a while)
> >>
> >> Assuming all is well in Step four
> >>
> >> Step five, same terminal run "sudo make install" again, this may take
> >a while.
> >>
> >> Once that's all done, in theory, it should be installed (at least it was
> >for me)
> >>
> >> I still can't get Finance Quote to get non-US currency, but other than
> >that mine is functioning fine.
> >>
> >> - James Duerr
> >>
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> >>
> >Hello,
> >
> >This will install the downloaded version in /usr/local/. So if you want
> >to call your newly gnucash you should run:
> >
> >/usr/local/bin/gnucash
> >
> >if you want to change the installation location you should use the
> >--prefix option with configure (see the INSTALL file)
> >
> >Please, any gnucashguru, correct me if i am wrong.
> >
> >
> >cheers
> >yvan