how to download

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 17:32:32 EDT 2018


When I go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ the green
button says on it "Download latest version gnucash-2.6.29-tar.bz2(13.6MB)".
But I am using LInux. Does it change dependent on which OS one is using?

Colin

On 14 March 2018 at 20:52, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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