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[Dennis Powless]

I was able to get the 2.6.12 version installed from getdeb.

Now, I'll need to upgrade that at some point.

Thanks,

D

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 September 2016 at 15:45, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm building from source, always wanted to try that.  Otherwise, I guess
> I
> > could just use the get deb
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to get the dependencies, any suggestions on how to do that
> > quickly.  Does the build get those or do I have to get them before make?
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building includes a section on Ubuntu,
> but I don't know whether it is up to date or not.  To get all the
> runtime dependencies I suggest installing the one in the Ubuntu
> repository first. Then build the latest in your home directory and run
> it from there.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > D
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23 September 2016 at 14:24, Dennis Powless <claven123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > I've just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and need to install Gnucash.
> I've
> >> > been using for many years.  I'm going to try to install the latest
> >> > stable
> >> > version 2.6.14 but my ubuntu is using 2.6.11
> >> >
> >> > I noticed the getdeb package is 2.6.13 not the latest release.  How
> does
> >> > one get that?
> >>
> >> Getdeb are usually pretty quick at updating, I expect it will happen
> >> quite quickly. Unless you need one of the fixes in the latest I would
> >> install from getdeb and upgrade when it appears.
> >>
> >> Otherwise you will have to build from source.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >
> >
>