How to update Win7 2.6.3 to 2.6.4?

[Greg Feneis]

Hi Geert,

Thanks for the help.  I'll keep the updating info in mind for when a
future version is advisable.




Kind Regards,

Greg







On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Geert Janssens
<geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2014 06:00:44 Greg Feneis wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
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>>
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>> I'm a Win7-64 user with GnuCash 2.6.3 installed and it works fine.
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>> Recently I was at gnucash.org and noticed the latest stable release is
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>> 2.6.4 and wanted to upgrade,
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> It's nice you are interested in the latest release. There are some issues
> with it unfortunately, particularly on Windows. So it may be best to wait
> for the next release which will come out as soon as these issues are
> resolved.
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>
>
>> so 2 questions:
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>>
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>> 1. How to upgrade? Do I need to uninstall 2.6.3 first, or if I
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>> install 2.6.4, does it automatically upgrade any existing GnuCash
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>> installations? Or?
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>>
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> While I don't advise this particular version as explained above, you can
> just install 2.6.4-2 over 2.6.3. The installer will ask you to if it can
> remove the old version. This will not affect your data, unless you made
> changes in the environment file found in
>
> <path-to-gnucash>\etc\gnucash\environment
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>
>
> This file will be overwritten so you may want to make a copy of it if you
> did change it. (Most people don't need to change it).
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>
>
>> 2. I've tried downloading 2.6.4 from the link
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>> http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnucash/gnucash%20%28sta
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>> ble%29/2.6.4/gnucash-2.6.4-2-setup.exe
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>>
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>> twice and each time I try to run it I get a warning that the file is
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>> corrupted and I need to download it again.
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> Perhaps try another mirror ?
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>
> Geert