how to download

[Dave H]

So do I 😁

On 15 Mar. 2018 6:49 am, "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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