how to download

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 16:48:28 EDT 2018


So now I am the one that is confused, I got the windows installer when I
followed that sequence.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:45 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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