Gnucash versions 2.2.9 and 2.4.10 broken in Debian Squeeze

[Colin Law]

On 2 February 2013 14:01, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> At Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:43:01 +0700 Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:
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>> On 2013-01-10 16:53, Colin Law wrote:
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>> > On 10 January 2013 08:22, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
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>> >> Can anyone suggest a livecd image which Ken could get and dual boot
>> >> with which already has a working gnucash?
>> >
>> > Ubuntu 12.10 includes a fully working gnucash (2.4.11) and should dual
>> > boot with debian with no problems.
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>> I downloaded from the Ubuntu site file ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso and
>> managed to write it to a USB stick.  Then I changed the BIOS in my
>> laptop, a Lenovo R61 which allows booting from a USB stick disguised as
>> either a HDD or a CDROM, and which has Debian Squeeze installed.  The
>> machine knew that there was something on the USB/CDROM, but whatever it
>> was it cound not boot from it.
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> You have to burn the ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso file to a CD-ROM.  I
> don't think you cannot put it on a USB stick and boot it from there!
> (CD-ROM booting is *different* from USB stick booting.)

That is absolutely not correct.  Assuming your machine will boot off
USB then provided you have burnt the stick following the instructions
linked to from the download page then it should work fine from USB.
In fact it is much better than CD since the stick is faster.

Colin