[GNC] Uninstalling previous versions

[DaveC49]

Stan,

The previous discussion on uninstalling related to Linux (the Ubuntu
distribution in particular) where users have built GnuCash from the source
code.

On Linux, if you use the particular Linux distribution's (Ubuntu, Debian,
Redhat, Centos etc.) supported version of Gnucash, it normally has an
uninstall for the previous version available to the user. Unlike Windows
though, it is not necessarily built into the installer for the succeeding
versions to automatically uninstall any previous versions, which would be
nice. Some distribution package managers may or should do that.

Unfortunately the Linux distribution GnuCash versions are often considerably
behind the GnuCash stable releases, so more Linux users tend to build from
source than would on either Windows or MACs. Linux is complicated by there
being many variants of it and these all tend to handle package management in
their own way, which is why packaging for a particular distribution is in
the hands of the people who manage the distribution rather than the GnuCash
developers. 

David Cousens



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