Updating GC in Jaunty

[Thomas Bullock]

James,

Thanks for your detailed step-by-step instructions.  That helps very much.  I will let you know how things work out after I have had a chance to follow up on your ideas.

Tom

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: FireFly [mailto:fireflys_98 at yahoo.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:09 AM
> >To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax )
> >Subject: Re: Updating GC in Jaunty
> >
> >> 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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