Stock Splits?

Keith Bellairs keith at bellairs.org
Wed Mar 19 10:57:17 EDT 2014


Tommy,

Thanks for update on status of gnucash with Ubuntu distros. I figured I
would just upgrade from 12.04 until I got to a newer gnucash. Sadly the
Ubuntu upgrade of 12.04 to 12.10 left my Ubuntu install unbootable. So here
I am in an old Fedora distro running gnucash 2.4.11.

Keith


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Tommy Trussell
<tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:12:22 -0400
> > Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Ubuntu 12.04 lts for some reason has not updated gnc. I will go up to
> > > 2.6.1 one way or another. (In fact, Synaptic package manager shows me
> > > good old 2.4.10.
> >
> > You would be better off getting 2.6.2 as 2.6.1 has a few bugs. I'm
> > still on 2.4.13 waiting on Debian testing to get to 2.6.2.
> >
> > Liz
> >
>
> Unfortunately it looks like GnuCash 2.6.1 is what will be packaged in
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Long Term Support) release. See
>
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu
>
> Due to the way Ubuntu packages GnuCash (via a fixed version imported from
> Debian on a "freeze" date before the final release, which for 14.04 was
> February 6th), it never gets updated in the Ubuntu standard repositories.
> (Actually if there were a serious security issue a patch would get pushed
> through.) Someone can "Backport" later versions of GnuCash to any supported
> version of Uubntu, which would be great if it happens, but users would
> still have to know how to activate the repository to get it. This is
> essentially what happens with GetDeb.
>
> The latest version available via Getdeb for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is GnuCash
> 2.4.13.
>
> FORTUNATELY, since GnuCash 2.6.2 is now available via Getdeb for Ubuntu
> 13.10, it almost certainly will be packaged for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS when the
> LTS release comes out next month.
>
> The wiki link above describes all that gibberish in a bit more detail if
> you need it.
>
>
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