Upgrade to 2.4.5

[Dennis Powless]

How do I do that?

Dennis

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 8:36 AM, David Muir <davidkmuir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or you could also just add the PPA. It's currently at 2.4.3 though.
>
> David
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> 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
>>
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>> 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?
>>
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>> 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
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>> 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??????????
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> If there is no any errors, we can run it:
>>
>> ~/unstable/gnucash/bin/gnucash
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>> 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?
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>> 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
>>>>
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