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[Jean-David Beyer]

On 02/23/2018 01:51 PM, Dave H wrote:
> Hi Jean-David,
> 
> Yes version 2.4.15 was released just over 4 years / 20 versions ago so
> I'm not surprised you're missing out on a lot of the good stuff :-)
> 
> I'm sure there must be ways of updating to a later version even on
> RedHat just like I have already done on Ubuntu.
> 
> I see epel list an srpm for gnucash 2.6.18-1 under both
> http://download3.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/7/SRPMS/Packages/g/
> and http://download3.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/7Server/SRPMS/Packages/g/ so
> I'm surprised you can't upgrade to at least that version ?

I cannot just upgrade a single package. To do that, I would have to go
through hell to get all the required libraries. I have done that in the
past: NEVER AGAIN! It took me several weeks to make some package work
that way. I think it was VLC. For that, I had to install 26 other
packages, and finding just the exact version of each took over a week.

I would have to upgrade my system from RHEL6 to RHEL7, and doing that
takes about a month of aggravation to get everything configured
correctly again. That is why I skip every other upgrade. Red Hat support
their releases for 10 years.

Also, I do not want to bother compiling from source.

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