[GNC] *.deb package for GnuCash 3.4 Released
Stephen M. Butler
kg7je at arrl.net
Mon Dec 31 12:17:27 EST 2018
On 12/31/18 5:54 AM, Les wrote:
> Thanks for the great work Steve.
>
> I am currently using Linux Mint 18.2 and GC 2.6.17. I am wondering if
> this .deb will run on my system, or will I have to update Linux MInt
> to 19.0?
>
> Thanks
>
> Les
I think we are in exploration mode at this point. Checkinstall says it
is only for same make/model. Colin found that he could get it to work
on Ubuntu 18.10 (my box is 18.04).
I am not that knowledgeable of how the various distros map to each other.
--Steve
>
> On 12/30/18 2:25 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> For those interested in a deb file but not willing to compile yourself:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=172BMIvLgD7twcGEWkR5GcddoZ_A4QWfY
>> --> gnucash_3.4-0-1_amd64.deb
>>
>> The zero after 3.4 is the commit number after the tag (there are
>> currently none) and the one after that is the first attempt to build
>> that on my box.
>>
>> I have removed the interim 3.3 versions from Google drive and now
>> only have the base 3.3 version also available:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PUEq8qE4yzq_HrBfJZQ376QbdTmJdYsP
>> --> gnucash_3.3-0-1_amd64.deb
>>
>> These were built on Ubuntu 18.04 based on a git pull of the maint
>> branch.
>>
>> --Steve
>>
>>
>> On 12/30/18 12:01 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.4, the fifth
>>> release of the 3.x stable release series.
>>>
>>> Changes
>>>
>>> Between 3.3 and 3.4, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>>>
>>> • Bug 498072 - GnuCash show taxes on invoice when individual
>>> taxes is not checked
>>> • Bug 760825 - On duplicating a bill, the entry dates should be
>>> set to the bill date, not to the current date - followup:
>>> Use neutral time on entry post dates instead of canonical time
>>> • Bug 767772 - Associated file with transaction is lost when
>>> moving entry between accounts
>>> • Bug 775580 - Inaccurate information provided for "Common
>>> Accounts" when using "New Account Hierarchy Setup"
>>> • Bug 779565 - Treeview header combos do not work at first load
>>> • Bug 788332 - Last Reconcile Date column sorts by day of month
>>> not date
>>> • Bug 789674 - Close Book tool regression
>>> • Bug 793156 - Incorrect date sort order in Generic import
>>> matcher window
>>> • Bug 795080 - Some dates reset to 01/01/1970
>>> • Bug 795237 - Update of "wohnungsw" template
>>> • Bug 795425 - Version 2018 of german account template SKR49
>>> • Bug 796772 - Receivable Ageing Report invalid URL for Totals
>>> column
>>> • Bug 796806 - Crash after OFX import if line item dragged
>>> • Bug 796842 - Add new employee window may not fit on screen
>>> • Bug 796849 - Load another QIF file causes "that file already
>>> loaded" dialog
>>> • Bug 796875 - Unable to use arrow keys to advance past
>>> pre-filled text in register
>>> • Bug 796878 - test-qofsession fails on x86_32.
>>> • Bug 796883 - Register text oddities
>>> HOME and END need to be treated like right and left arrow keys.
>>> • Bug 796886 - OFX Import does not show source account in the
>>> transaction matching window
>>> • Bug 796887 - Remove account slot key color if there is no
>>> valid color
>>> • Bug 796893 - invoice.GetDatePosted() and other date related
>>> functions returns strange values for uninitalised dates.
>>> • Bug 796896 - Button to complete an export not intuitively
>>> placed or discoverable
>>> • Bug 796903 - Crash when searching invoice by Invoice Owner
>>> • Bug 796914 - Customer Summary is giving error
>>> • Bug 796915 - Update Account colour background
>>> • Bug 796940 - Invalid transaction date-posted KVP causes
>>> date-posted to not be saved.
>>> • Bug 796944 - Tab navigation From Company Address field in New
>>> Book Options
>>> • Bug 796945 - Search Search Criteria window does not scroll
>>> when added criteria exceed a certain amount
>>> • Bug 796948 - Scheduled Transactions Entered Since Last Run Are
>>> not Visible
>>> • Bug 796949 - Incorrect conversion of 0,01 USD to EUR
>>> • Bug 796960 - Incorrect amount sort order in Generic import
>>> matcher window
>>> • Bug 796961 - Can't overwrite existing MYSQL database, V3.3.
>>> • Bug 796967 - gnclock table not removed when using PostgreSQL.
>>> • Bug 796978 - Deleting a split of same account as register
>>> cancels the transaction without warning
>>> • Bug 796981 - Gnucash crashes with critical error when
>>> selecting another file
>>> • Bug 796982 - Import Bills & Invoices: change in un_escape()
>>> routine causes description and notes fields to be mangled.
>>> • Bug 796988 - Untranslated string in CSV transaction importer
>>> • Bug 796989 - some date/time does not honor user locale
>>> • Bug 796994 - Unable to generate Tax Report because of pricedb
>>> error
>>> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug
>>> reports:
>>>
>>> • Set up filepath utils to determine the GNC_CONFIG_HOME in the
>>> same way as GNC_DATA_HOME.
>>> Until now GNC_CONFIG_HOME was more or less hard-coded. Now it can be
>>> set via environment variable GNC_CONFIG_HOME. In addition it will
>>> automatically be created to avoid potential user confusion.
>>> • Redesign gnc-uri-utils
>>> • gnc_uri_get_components will now return NULL as protocol if
>>> the input is a normal file system path instead of a uri (it used to
>>> return 'file')
>>> • gnc_uri_get_protocol will now return NULL if the input is
>>> a normal file system path instead of a uri (it used to return 'file')
>>> • gnc_uri_is_file_protocol now returns FALSE if protocol is
>>> NULL (it used to return TRUE)
>>> • gnc_uri_is_file_uri now returns FALSE if input is a normal
>>> file system path instead of a uri (it used to return TRUE)
>>> • a new function gnc_uri_targets_local_fs will return TRUE
>>> only if its input is either a file uri or a normal file system path.
>>> This function is now mostly used instead of gnc_uri_is_file_uri in
>>> the current code base
>>> • a new function gnc_uri_is_uri is added to check whether
>>> its input is a valid uri (has protocol, path and hostname for
>>> non-file uris)
>>> • refer to 'scheme' instead of 'protocol' as that's the more
>>> formal term used in uris This involves renaming 3 functions:
>>> • gnc_uri_get_protocol -> gnc_uri_get_scheme
>>> • gnc_uri_is_known_protocol -> gnc_uri_is_known_scheme
>>> • gnc_uri_is_file_protocol -> gnc_uri_is_file_scheme
>>> • The *_protocol variants are marked as deprecated.
>>> • Additionally a number of local variables have been renamed
>>> from protocol to scheme to support this change.
>>> • Show warnings for deprecated declarations
>>> We're about to announce our own set of deprecated functions in
>>> libgnucash. That would be pretty pointless if we also would silence
>>> all deprecation warnings at the same time...
>>> • More report code-cleanup by Chris Lam, including deprecating
>>> the following functions:
>>> • gnc:account-get-balance-at-date
>>> • gnc:account-get-total-flow
>>> • gnc-commodity-numeric-string
>>> • gnc-commodity-value->string
>>> • gnc:double-col
>>> • gnc:options-add-include-subaccounts
>>> • gnc:options-add-group-accounts
>>> • gnc:options-add-currency-selection
>>> The following modules are deprecated:
>>> • report-system/collectors
>>> • report-system/report-collectors
>>> • Invoice: Remove H1 title and superflous option.
>>> Printing the title twice is silly, so remove the option and the H1
>>> display of the title. Note that the remaining title is in a div
>>> named "invoice-title" so it can be styled with CSS as the user
>>> pleases from the Report Options Layout tab.
>>> • The preference, use formal accounting labels does not update
>>> the header With a register open and you change preference 'use
>>> formal accounting labels' it does not update the register header so
>>> add a call back for the preference.
>>> • Make the grid lines of totals Budget tree view track the
>>> preferences.
>>> Make the grid lines of the totals tree view track the preferences to
>>> match the account tree view above it.
>>> • Add routine to fix Account Color being set to "Not Set"
>>> Previously the account color slot has been populated with "Not Set"
>>> when any field for the account has been edited and saved. This
>>> routine should run once and remove all such entries.
>>> • Performance fix in dom_chars_handler: use g_strndup instead of
>>> g_strdup
>>> • In the appdata/metadata file, rename the ID from
>>> org.gnucash.Gnucash to org.gnucash.GnuCash to match flathub, and add
>>> a launchable ID to link it to the desktop file.
>>> • Added double-click-on-file for the CSV transaction, price, and
>>> account importers and exporters.
>>> • Cleaned up a variety of issues reported by the clang static
>>> analyzer.
>>> • Allow the text options widget to use all remaining space
>>> The text option widget used for report options has only about 3
>>> lines visible currently and will not use any available space in the
>>> dialogue. Change the packing for this widget to expand and fill the
>>> remaining dialogue space. If there are more than one text option
>>> widget on a page then the available space will be shared equally.
>>> • Add short_labels for a few toolbar buttons with long names.
>>> That should fit a few more buttons on the toolbar.
>>> • Update iso-4217-currencies.xml, adddding VES - Bolivar
>>> Soberano, minor updates of other VE currencies.
>>> • Python 3 bindings fixes and improvements from Christoph
>>> Holterman and Sumit Bhardwaj.
>>> We have revised translations for Chinese (Simplified), Farsi,
>>> German, Japanese, Portuguese (Portugal), and Ukrainian
>>>
>>> Revised or added account templates for English (US), English (UK),
>>> German (Austria), German (Germany), Portuguese (Portugal)
>>>
>>> Known Issues
>>>
>>> The following are open bug reports new to the 3.x series considered
>>> significant by the development team:
>>>
>>> • Bug 775368 - "Average cost" price source problem
>>> • Bug 795071 - new account entry screen keeps on disappearing
>>> and coming back
>>> • Bug 795251 - googletest detection cannot be overridden
>>> • Bug 795362 - Special variable "i" not parsed in function calls
>>> • Bug 795383 - Gnucash crashes on import of a 1400-transaction
>>> (or more) CSV file
>>> • Bug 795384 - GnuCash 3 is tremendously memory hungry on macOs
>>> • Bug 795393 - Do not create .log files when using sqlite backend
>>> • Bug 795614 - Unicode handling in amount fields [resubmission]
>>> • Bug 795729 - Advanced Portfolio Report - Percentage rates not
>>> displaying leadinga zeroes
>>> • Bug 795804 - Extremely slow save
>>> • Bug 796100 - Autosave Doesn't Always Work
>>> • Bug 796122 - Poor Performance Scanning Old Files During Autosave
>>> • Bug 796492 - Wrong calculation of the first occurrence
>>> • Bug 796496 - CSV Importer: Column Selectors invisible on Windows.
>>> • Bug 796500 - Scalability issue - importing large CSV to large
>>> book won't finish
>>> • Bug 796520 - Layout overlapping in Income & Expense Chart
>>> • Bug 796656 - GnuCash frequently crashes, usually involving
>>> unsaved transactions.
>>> • Bug 796687 - Tax Entity name and type for an account won't
>>> work under "Tax Reporting Options" in Gnucash 3.2
>>> • Bug 796688 - "Next" Button Moves Repeatedly During New File
>>> Wizard
>>> • Bug 796728 - GnuCash 3.0-3.2 crashes when starting up under
>>> Windows
>>> • Bug 796736 - Column Widths calculator need to allow more padding
>>> • Bug 796740 - Selecting register value with mouse fails
>>> • Bug 796746 - Cannot copy and paste anything into the amount
>>> field (both credit and debit)
>>> • Bug 796750 - qof_query_search_for stores pointer of type
>>> string argument
>>> • Bug 796754 - Guile encoding certain strings not as UTF-8
>>> • Bug 796758 - Improve error messages, why one can not remove a
>>> tax table
>>> • Bug 796761 - Newline (char(10) is inserted into the end of the
>>> string if copy & paste text from excel into the description field of
>>> transaction
>>> • Bug 796767 - The importer shows read-only and placeholder
>>> accounts
>>> • Bug 796773 - Display of Negative numbers
>>> • Bug 796774 - Investment account QIF Import does not import
>>> transaction
>>> • Bug 796779 - Window size in SEPA transaction
>>> • Bug 796782 - Cannot import OFX file in new 3.2
>>> • Bug 796799 - After Deleting Transaction Price, Enter Required 2x
>>> • Bug 796810 - Account creation and editing dialogs do not allow
>>> entering umlaut-u
>>> • Bug 796824 - took more than 2 hours to import 220 transactions
>>> • Bug 796844 - Amount column of Customer Report should net
>>> Credits and Debits
>>> • Bug 796847 - Error trying to do CSV import doesn't recognize
>>> account specification
>>> • Bug 796850 - Auto-decimal-point causes incorrect price to
>>> display when amount is edited.
>>> • Bug 796852 - Context sensitive Help broken
>>> • Bug 796857 - Import of QIF duplicates transfer transactions
>>> • Bug 796867 - GNUCash crashes on startup with Mac Mojave 10.14
>>> in Dark mode.
>>> • Bug 796870 - Cannot (occasionally) undo invoice billing
>>> • Bug 796871 - GtkFileChooser Name Field and Sidebar Ignore UNC
>>> Paths
>>> • Bug 796877 - test-stress-options fails
>>> • Bug 796878 - test-qofsession fails on x86_32
>>> • Bug 796879 - GnuCash crashes on startup
>>> • Bug 796880 - Menu Tooltips Interfere with All Dialogs
>>> • Bug 796882 - Entering an amount as a calculation fails the
>>> first time in bills
>>> • Bug 796885 - SX Editor Calendar Sometimes Shows Wrong Year,
>>> Wrong Next Date
>>> • Bug 796890 - CSV import of multi-split transactions marks
>>> reconciliation status of first line as cleared
>>> • Bug 796892 - Startup warning: undefined symbol PyOS_getsig
>>> • Bug 796894 - Edit -> Preferences results in gnucash.exe- No
>>> Disk error box
>>> • Bug 796895 - Report end and start dates not obeyed
>>> • Bug 796896 - Button to complete an export not intuitively
>>> placed or discoverable
>>> • Bug 796899 - FTBFS on [mips]: segfault; test-backend-dbi;
>>> endianness
>>> • Bug 796900 - Problems in Description Editing. Select all
>>> implemented with the Caps Key (plus no Ctrl Z Undo, grrr)
>>> • Bug 796905 - GNUcash does not start after windows 10 update
>>> • Bug 796907 - After a series of actions to the window of
>>> GnuCash, some of or all of the contents will dispear and could not
>>> get them back
>>> • Bug 796909 - Can't enter different notes and memos for an AR
>>> payment transaction
>>> • Bug 796911 - Minimum window width is too large, so it may not
>>> be possible to maximise the window
>>> • Bug 796926 - Scrolling Fails if Mouse Leaves Window
>>> • Bug 796933 - Backspace key doesn't work, sometimes.
>>> • Bug 796934 - Menu and message characters display as boxes
>>> • Bug 796935 - Scrollbar indicator does not move while scrolling
>>> • Bug 796936 - Saving XML-formatted file to CryFS volume crashes
>>> GNUCash
>>> • Bug 796938 - Typing account name no longer navigates to account
>>> • Bug 796942 - Make Auto-Split Optional or Undo-Able for Data Entry
>>> • Bug 796946 - Mortgage and Loan Repayment Setup tool crashes
>>> when exiting "Loan Repayment Options" page
>>> • Bug 796953 - Attempting to enter loan causes 3.3 to crash
>>> • Bug 796954 - No scroll in invoice/billing and all columns not
>>> visible. Column resizing is disastrous
>>> • Bug 796955 - Import CSV - Single-line two-currency
>>> transactions can't be imported
>>> • Bug 796965 - Show Unused Accounts
>>> • Bug 796968 - Screen display gets corrupted in some
>>> circumstances when multiple windows stacked on top of each other
>>> • Bug 796970 - Disable editing of currency retrieval settings
>>> for currencies.
>>> • Bug 796971 - Keys "Home" and "End" do not work after popup is
>>> displayed
>>> • Bug 796973 - Blocking problem when importing QIF - trading
>>> commodities enter Information
>>> • Bug 796974 - Feature Request - Headings for the Matcher column
>>> Deposit/Withdrawal do not change to Debit/Credit when formal
>>> accounting labels are preferenced
>>> • Bug 796976 - saving file with scheduled transaction hangs:
>>> copy of scheduled transactions missing in tmp file?
>>> • Bug 796977 - No amounts displaying after upgrade from 2.6.19
>>> to 3.3
>>> • Bug 796979 - GnuCash segfaults on first startup when run from
>>> remote X session
>>> • Bug 796983 - fails when importing QIF exported by Quicken 2015
>>> Deluxe
>>> • Bug 796989 - some date/time does not honor user locale
>>> • Bug 796990 - Budget : Newly created account and account with
>>> zero transaction cannot be shown in Budget
>>> • Bug 796992 - gnucash --add-price-quotes always fails
>>> Documentation
>>>
>>> There were no content changes to the GnuCash Documentation, though
>>> the build system was modified.
>>>
>>>
>>> Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
>>>
>>> GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and
>>> MacOS X 10.9 (Mavericks)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one
>>> packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the
>>> MacOS X® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop
>>> application bundle.
>>>
>>> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>>>
>>> •
>>> a254883c8f7e34f2e19ebdc6a0185489d9027341d7d62a6f1ef815a8c9e342d7
>>> gnucash-3.4.tar.bz2
>>> •
>>> 95e8d340b7299e67ed9bedd29141cdc50824a1d6c17ebba302396b862e33b2ea
>>> gnucash-3.4.tar.gz
>>> •
>>> 7ebbec0bc668e42d04178254a754aab7ba63c3177ed4e60bd5c6da917a2a316f
>>> gnucash-3.4.setup.exe
>>> •
>>> 359d3ecbfc2143fe11901bd0319a60c5b802a8c13206c4da0041e510b7d39d59
>>> Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg
>>> •
>>> 6575438811ecf8a208a33cd6055b4a10ed324b89e12a247a76cdecc5a82489ec
>>> gnucash-docs-3.4.tar.gz
>>>
>>> SourceForge:
>>>
>>> Download GnuCash for Win32:
>>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.4.setup.exe
>>> Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
>>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg
>>>
>>> Github
>>>
>>> Download GnuCash for Win32:
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.3/gnucash-3.4.setup.exe
>>> Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.3/Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg
>>>
>>> Getting GnuCash as source code
>>>
>>> If you want to compile GnuCash 3.4 for yourself, the source code can
>>> be downloaded from:
>>>
>>> Sourceforge:
>>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.4.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.4.tar.gz
>>> Github:
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.4/gnucash-3.4.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.4/gnucash-3.4.tar.gz
>>>
>>> WARNING Do not try to use the github-generated files labelled
>>> "Source Code". They have not been processed with swig and will not
>>> build.
>>> You can also checkout the sources: git clone
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the
>>> required dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from
>>> source. Additional information on building GnuCash may be found at
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building.
>>>
>>> Getting the documentation
>>>
>>> The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash
>>> website. The 3.4 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v3
>>> (current stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading
>>> online and for download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.
>>>
>>> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 3.4 for yourself,
>>> the source code can be downloaded from:
>>>
>>> Sourceforge:
>>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-3.4.tar.gz
>>> GitHub:
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.4/gnucash-docs-3.4.tar.gz
>>> You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository
>>> as described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.
>>>
>>> Detailed instructions for building GnuCash may be found at
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building and for the Documentation at
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Initializing_Documentation_Build_Environment.
>>>
>>> About the Program
>>>
>>> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the
>>> GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD,
>>> Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began
>>> in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.
>>>
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