how to download

[Colin Law]

On 14 March 2018 at 20:05, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Perhaps Mike has not seen the Source Forge webpage before.  Just start from
> the <https://www.gnucash.org/> website. Then select Download GnuCash.
> Select the version for your operating system.  If it is Windows you get
> taken to the Source Forge download page.  That shows a fancy list of
> folders with icons on the right that suggest popularity.  About half way
> down is the gnucash (stable) folder with a large number of downloads on the
> right.  Click that or just click the large green button near the top of the
> page.  Then make sure that you remember where you tell it to place the
> file.
>

The confusion arises, I suspect, from the fact that the obvious thing to do
is click the large green button which says Download Latest Version, which
downloads the source tarball not the installer.  I imagine that for 99% of
visitors that is not what they want.

Colin


>
> David C
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Mike Schliebe <mschliebe at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I downloaded it from Filehippo.com. I can't see how to download from
> > SourceForge.net. That site is terribly confusing. I looked at
> download.com
> > from Cnet but they showed an older version of the program. I don't know
> > what the sha256 is but here is a copy of the info in the "About" section
> of
> > the help menu:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/13/2018 4:00 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Mar 13, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> >>> adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Mike,
> >>>
> >>> Be careful. It is generally not safe to download software from
> >>> unofficial sources.
> >>>
> >>> SourceForge.net is the official source as Dave noted.
> >>>
> >>> What other site did you download it from?
> >>>
> >> We also put official binaries on the releases page of our Github repo.
> >>
> >> That said, confirming that the sha256 of what you downloaded matches the
> >> the one published in the release announcement regardless of where you
> >> downloaded it from should be being careful enough.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >>
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