Upgrade to 2.4.5

[David Muir]

Or you could also just add the PPA. It's currently at 2.4.3 though.

David

On 16/04/11 04:53, Dennis Powless wrote:
> I was hoping there was a simple update site with directions.....
>
> I have ubuntu 10.10 with GC 2.2.9
>
>
> 1. Delete the old Gnucash and all the files. (Save my data files.....)
>      a. not sure on the exact location and names of files
> 2. Do I need to use subversion?
> 3. See below for building, I assume this is what I have to do?
>
>
> These are the directions from  http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
>
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
>
> The instructions is very similar to Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> First, we need install all dependencies of building GnuCash.
>
> sudo aptitude build-dep gnucash
> sudo aptitude install texinfo subversion intltool libdbi0-dev
> libdbd-{sqlite3,pgsql,mysql} guile-1.8 guile-1.8-dev doxygen
> libwebkit-dev
>
> Since Ubuntu/Debian doesn't have guile-1.8-slib, which is actually
> just a softlink to slib, we create the softlink and generate the
> catalog manually.
>
> cd /usr/share/guile/1.8
> sudo ln -s ../../slib slib
> sudo guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)"
>
> (((((******''''' Does the part in parenthases get typed onto the
> terminal??????????
>
>
> And then we create the directories for source code and installation,
> and check out source code from SVN trunk:
>
> mkdir -p ~/unstable ~/development
> rm -rf ~/unstable/gnucash ~/development/gnucash
> cd ~/development
> svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash
> cd gnucash
>
> Then, we build it by following commands:
>
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/unstable/gnucash --enable-debug
> --enable-doxygen --enable-error-on-warning --enable-compile-warnings
> make all install
>
> If there is no any errors, we can run it:
>
> ~/unstable/gnucash/bin/gnucash
>
>
>
> So, does this get me Gnucash 2.4.5?????  or the nightly build or
> unstable version?  How to I get v 2.4.5 instead of the unstable
> version and what does the trunk or non trunk mean?
>
>
>
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it> wrote:
>> I'm also with Ubuntu 10.10 and I had problems installing the updated deb
>> from getdeb. I solved the problem by uninstalling the GnuCash and
>> GnuCash-common packages from the Software Center, then downloading the
>> updated packages from [1] (browse to the end of the page and search for
>> Ubuntu 10.10) and manually installing them (double click on the deb file:
>> first the GnuCash-common package then the actual GnuCash).
>>
>> I think the problem resides in the GnuCash-common package as it can't be
>> upgraded but it has to be reinstalled (don't know why).
>>
>> [1]
>> http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=gnucash&search_on=smart&distro=0&arch=32-bit&exact=0
>>
>>
>>
>> Il 15/04/2011 07:22, FireFly ha scritto:
>>> --- On Thu, 4/14/11, Dennis Powless<claven123 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> I would like to update my GC from
>>>> 2.2.9 on Ubuntu 10.10 to the last
>>>> stable release of 2.4.5
>>>>
>>>> I have seen bits a pieces here about building it vs using
>>>> synaptic.
>>>>
>>>> I was looking for instructions on how to do this and found
>>>> the wiki,
>>>> but it doesn't specifically mention how to use the get deb
>>>> and what
>>>> are the three packages I need.  Also, I see things
>>>> about guile
>>>> configuration  and slib.  Not sure how to do
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> Or, should I wait until synaptic has the latest
>>>> version?  Or wait
>>>> until the next ubuntu comes out?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not sure about getdeb, did try it but didn't seem to get anywhere with it
>>> (just got errors).
>>>
>>> 11.04 looks like it's going to have 2.4.2 (been stuck at that one for a
>>> while in the testing, so I'm assuming given that it's April it's not
>>> suddenly going to be updated)
>>>
>>> I normally follow these instructions
>>>
>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu_10.04_LTS_.28Lucid_Lynx.29
>>>
>>> And they work just fine for building 2.4.5 in 10.04, not sure if there is
>>> anything more in 10.10 that would need to be done.
>>>
>>>
>>> - James Duerr
>>>
>>> E-mail: FireFlys_98 at yahoo.com
>>> ---------------------
>>> Discover a lost art - play Marbles. May 2004
>>> www.marillion.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gnucash-user mailing list
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>>> -----
>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>>> .
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnucash-user mailing list
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>> -----
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.