Updating GC in Jaunty

[Thomas Bullock]

Thanks, Tim, for your advice.  I will try to use it as soon as I am able.

Tom

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Tim Frost [mailto:timfrost at xtra.co.nz]
> >Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:00 AM
> >To: Tax Assistance Program - ( taptax )
> >Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >Subject: Re: Updating GC in Jaunty
> >
> >On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:46 -0400, Tax Assistance Program wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> >For a version that will be correctly managed using
> >apt/synaptic/update-manager, I suggest you add the Gnucash PPA to
> >your repository list.  See
> >https://launchpad.net/~gnucash/+archive/ppa
> >
> >The Ubuntu developers have packaged gnucash 2.2.9 for the various
> >older supported Ubuntu releases.
> >
> >Updated versions of some related packages are also available from
> >that repository.
> >
> >
> >The Finance::Quote perl library (packaged as libfinance-quote-perl) is
> >NOT among those updates, so you only have access to version 1.13 in
> >the official repositories.  Since it is entirely perl code, it might be
> >possible to use the libfinance-quote-perl package from karmic by
> >manually downloading it from your local mirror, and installing it using
> >dpkg.  The URL for that file is
> >http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libf/libfinance-
> >quote-perl/libfinance-quote-perl_1.16-2_all.deb
> >
> >(you can point to your local mirror rather than the main site by using
> >CC.archive.ubuntu.com, where CC is your ISO country code)
> >
> >
> >
> >tim at zaphod:~$ dpkg-deb -I Desktop/libfinance-quote-perl_1.16-
> >2_all.deb
> > new debian package, version 2.0.
> > size 196536 bytes: control archive= 3472 bytes.
> >     562 bytes,    13 lines      control
> >    8105 bytes,   100 lines      md5sums
> > Package: libfinance-quote-perl
> > Version: 1.16-2
> > Architecture: all
> > Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-
> >motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Original-Maintainer: Bart Martens <bartm at debian.org>
> > Installed-Size: 688
> > Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), libhtml-tableextract-perl, libwww-perl,
> >libcrypt-ssleay-perl
> > Section: perl
> > Priority: optional
> > Homepage: http://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/
> > Description: Perl module for retrieving stock quotes from a variety of
> >sources
> >  This is a Perl module that retrieves stock quotes and other securities
> >  information from various locations
> >
> >
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >--
> >Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>