[GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Sat Jun 30 11:56:35 EDT 2018


On 06/29/2018 12:43 AM, DaveC49 wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> It is generally a good idea to remove the previous version before installing
> a new one. Gnucash will generally overwrite any existing files of the same
> name, but you may be left with unnecessary files in some cases. Going from
> 3.1 to 3.2 should be OK as there are unlikey to be major changes in the file
> structure, but between major version could be problematical There are
> instructions on the Wiki in the build instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 for
> doing uninstalls in a variety of circumstances including manually deleting
> all the files which will be the same for 18.04. I'll put a note in there re
> uninstalling previous versionsbefore the build instructions to make it
> clearer.
>
> If you still have the 3.1 build directory:
>  open a shell and cd to the build directory then type 
>  sudo make uninstall

Sadly, I aggressively removed it when bringing in 3.2  :-(
So a learning experience that, hopefully, I can help others avoid.
>
> then do the install of V3.2
>
> This uses a manifest created when Gnucash was installed to uninstall all of
> the program files. It leaves user preference files untouched.
>
> David
>
>
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