Update to Latest Stable Release

[Albert Long]

Done! Seems to work okay so far.

Thanks very much for letting me know about GetDeb.

Hope things work out with LMDE. They are saying on the Mint forum to wait
for Jan release, but that may only apply to 32bit machines.

Happy New Year

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, N B Day <nbday at charter.net> wrote:

> 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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