GnuCash 2.6.8 released

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Ron Schnatzmeyer <NoSoy1 at charter.net> wrote:

> Thank you. Changing it to 'trusty' did indeed work.
>
> I am still very confused about this however. All I did was install the
> "getdeb" package from getdeb.net. 'http://archive.getdeb.net
> rafaela-getdeb/apps' is what it installed. Wouldn't that indicate that the
> "getdeb" package itself is not installing the right thing? Or do I have yet
> something else messed up?
>
> I'm just trying to understand. Between getdeb.net calling it 'vivid' and
> then with 'trusty' and 'rafaela' in there too... me confused. :-\
>

The getdeb package was written for Ubuntu (and maybe Debian), which you're
not running. All the getdeb package does is read information from a
specific place on your system and write the information to the apt
configuration files, assuming an Ubuntu (or Debian) system. (You may know
Ubuntu is a "child" distro of Debian -- Debian is the "parent"
distribution-- so most open source software packages filter directly from
Debian to Ubuntu.)

SO, my guess is the getdeb volunteers didn't even consider that a
non-Ubuntu or non-Debian user might try to use the package; if they had,
they might have done some more "sanity" testing in the code. Those
volunteers may not have considered how to keep track of all the Ubuntu
"child" distributions; there are lots of them, and they may not behave
consistently. But the solution MIGHT be as simple as adding a rafaela link
to their repository server.

SO I hope you report the problem to the getdeb folks. They have a contact
form at getdeb.net (which I used successfully yesterday), along with a
contribute button (which I also used) to defray the bandwidth cost of
downloading software.  ;-)