[GNC] Uninstalling previous versions

[Stan Brown]

Thanks for clarifying, Geert. From the earlier discussion I had the
impression that we were supposed to do a manual uninstall every time
before installing a new version, so I'm glad to learn that's not true.

-- 
Regards,
Stan Brown
Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://BrownMath.com
http://OakRoadSystems.com


On 2018-07-02 05:29, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Op zondag 1 juli 2018 14:02:06 CEST schreef Stan Brown:
>> Surely the installer of the new version can uninstall the old
>> version itself -- and in my opinion, it should.
> 
> That's the general principle and that's also what the gnucash installer will 
> do.
> 
> There are a few caveats though:[snip]
> 
> An update usually works though. If not an explicit uninstall followed by a 
> manual removal of left over files helps to eliminate this class of errors.