Crash When Entering Tax Data - GC 2.4.4 (Debian Squeeze Backports)

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Wed Feb 29 05:14:44 EST 2012


On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:22:22 -0800 (PST)
Digger <careycher1 at msn.com> wrote:

> *2.*  Also, since I'm running Debian stable (Squeeze), I'm sort of
> stuck with GC 2.4.4 at the moment, since it is the only version
> available in the backports repo.  I'm guessing that this is something
> that I need to bring up with the Debian folks....does that sound
> right?


Procedure for getting a different version of a program into Debian.

1. Enable some more repositories.
Open /etc/apt/sources.list as root, so you can edit it

Add a line for the next newer repository
eg
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free 
(that's for Au)

running from the command line
using sudo or a root terminal

apt-get update
apt-get -t testing -s install {packagename}

-s is for simulate, so you can see what will happen
If it offers to upgrade packages and install a couple of new ones and
then install the required package, you can then go ahead
apt-get -t testing install {packagename}


this is the result of me suggesting to the package manager that I'd
like the /unstable/ version of gnucash, as my testing is up to date

=============================================
$ sudo apt-get -t unstable -s install gnucash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gnucash-common
Suggested packages:
  libdbd-mysql libdbd-pgsql libdbd-sqlite3
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gnucash gnucash-common
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 433 not upgraded.
Inst gnucash [1:2.4.9-1] (1:2.4.10-1 Debian:unstable [i386]) []
Inst gnucash-common [1:2.4.9-1] (1:2.4.10-1 Debian:unstable [all])
Conf gnucash-common (1:2.4.10-1 Debian:unstable [all])
Conf gnucash (1:2.4.10-1 Debian:unstable [i386])
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