Upgrade to 2.4.5

David Muir davidkmuir at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 21:52:23 EDT 2011


https://launchpad.net/~gnucash/+archive/ppa

Cheers,
David


On 16/04/11 21:44, Dennis Powless wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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?
>>>
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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
>>>>
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>>>> 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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>>>>>
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