Update to Latest Stable Release

[N B Day]

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 14:35 -0500, Albert Long wrote:
> Thanks for your advice FireFly. 'Necessary' meant if I wait will it create
> issues catching up. I guess it won't.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:13 PM, FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- On Fri, 12/31/10, Albert Long <albertlong001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm using Linux Mint 10, which
> > > installed GnuCash 2.2.9 .
> > >
> > > Should I update to 2.4.0? Is it necessary? How do I
> > > update?
> >
> > Define necessary?
> >
> > You can probably download and build from source if you want to use any of
> > the new features in 2.4, or bug fixes that are made are critical to you.
> >
> > For the average user, personally I'd say they can wait for the new version
> > to become available through normal channels, but that's just me.

I'm using Mint 10 Julia and have updated to gnucash 2.4 with this ppa
for Ubuntu Maverick. It was easy and I have no compatibility issues with
machines still using 2.2.9 and the same dataset.

  http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_apps?dist=maverick

I'm still using the xml file format for backwards compatibility.  When I
get my EOY stuff done I'll upgrade my wife and others (much more
dangerous than playing around with my own computer!) and look into the
sqlite format.  The ppa didn't work on LMDE, which I'm also playing
around with, so I may have to actually build it for that.  For Ubuntu
and close relatives though, it really is dead easy to be running 2.4.


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