2.6 is on ubuntu!

[Colin Law]

On 5 January 2014 10:54, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> On 01/05/2014 02:46 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 5 January 2014 10:35, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Version 2.6.0 is now on the Ubuntu Software Center.  I downloaded it and
>>> so
>>> far, it works ok.
>>
>> Are you using the beta version of Ubuntu Trusty (which will be Ubuntu
>> 14.04 when it is released in April)?  I see 2.6 there but I would not
>> expect it to be provided in 13.10 or earlier as new major versions are
>> not normally made available in current Ubuntu releases.
>>
>> If you are not using Trusty could you run
>>
>> apt-cache policy gnucash
>>
>> in a terminal and post the result?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
> I am using 13.10.  below is the result of your request:
>
>   Installed: 1:2.6.0-1~getdeb1
>   Candidate: 1:2.6.0-1~getdeb1
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:2.6.0-1~getdeb1 0
>         500 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/ saucy-getdeb/apps i386
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1:2.4.13-1ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe i386
> Packages

OK, so you are getting it from getdeb.net, not the official Ubuntu repository.

Colin