how to download

[David Carlson]

The green button may have been broken for a while in the last couple of
days, but it worked for me when I first selected to download the windows
version from the gnucash webpage then use the green button to download the
setup file a few seconds ago.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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