Currency Issue

[Les]

On 01/11/2015 12:24 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a bank account that has both HKD (primary currency) and CNY.  I
>> entered an income:interest for 9.79 CNY and it doubled my total my total
>> bank amount.  I remove the interest transaction and the balance returns
>> to the correct amount.  This is on a Mint Linux Debian Editions with
>> 2.4.13 GC.  I tried this transaction on my Macbook pro with lastest OS
>> updates and 2.4 15 GC and it works as it should.  Appreciate any
>> assistance. I am very confused as I have made these transactions in the
>> past without issues although CNY does not roll up to HKD.
>>
> Clearly you encountered a bug that was fixed somewhere between 2.4.13 and 2.4.15. Upgrade your Linux box to 2.4.15, or better, upgrade both to 2.6.5. Multi-currency handling saw significant improvement in 2.6.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
Since I was able to properly complete the transaction with my Mac, I
saved the GC file and then successfully downloaded it to the Linux box. 
The problem is that LMDE has not updated the repos since I installed the
2014-3 version.  I suppose I can use the Ubuntu deb to install, or
download and install the latest tarball.  But I would prefer using the
offical repos. 
Are there other methods I have overlooked?
Thanks,
Les